Evolutionary Hierarchical Harvest Schedule Optimization for Food Waste Prevention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10712v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:59:53 GMT
• Title: Evolutionary Hierarchical Harvest Schedule Optimization for Food Waste Prevention
• Authors: Maurice G\"under, Nico Piatkowski, Laura von Rueden, Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage
• Abstract summary: intercropping is an efficient way to avoid monocropping for soil and environment. Maintaining a continuous harvest reduces logistical costs and related greenhouse gas emissions. We propose an optimization method for a full harvest season of large crop ensembles that complies with given constraints.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: In order to avoid disadvantages of monocropping for soil and environment, it is advisable to practice intercropping of various plant species whenever possible. However, intercropping is challenging as it requires a balanced planting schedule due to individual cultivation time frames. Maintaining a continuous harvest reduces logistical costs and related greenhouse gas emissions, and contributes to food waste prevention. In this work, we address these issues and propose an optimization method for a full harvest season of large crop ensembles that complies with given constraints. By using an approach based on an evolutionary algorithm combined with a novel hierarchical loss function and adaptive mutation rate, we transfer the multi-objective into a pseudo-single-objective optimization problem and obtain faster convergence and better solutions than for conventional approaches.

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