Sumários
Class 14
5 Novembro 2025, 17:45 • José Guilherme Martins Dias Calvão Borges
Final quiz and exam: solving six linear programming formulations, and interpretation of results. Link to the class notes: https://guarani.esalq.usp.br/moodle/course/section.php?id=35
Class 13
3 Novembro 2025, 16:30 • José Guilherme Martins Dias Calvão Borges
Presentation of the most useful linear programming forest planning formulations: perfectly regulated production flow; non-declining production flow; production flow bouncing around an annual mean; biomass and age-class area control; minimization of total deviation from multiple goals. Daily quiz and link to the class notes: https://guarani.esalq.usp.br/moodle/course/section.php?id=34
Class 12
22 Outubro 2025, 17:45 • José Guilherme Martins Dias Calvão Borges
The problem of generating a comprehensive decision space, with meaningful and realistic alternative decision variables. Presentation of iGen, a tool to generate decision spaces and tree graphs with branches and nodes that can handle the complex representation of real landscape management problems. Introduction to the concept of accounting variables. Daily quiz and link to the class notes: https://guarani.esalq.usp.br/moodle/course/section.php?id=40
Class 11
20 Outubro 2025, 16:30 • José Guilherme Martins Dias Calvão Borges
The transition from local optima to global optima. Revision of mathematically constrained optimization problems, and linear programming (LP) formulation. The definition of decision variable and decision space. The BASIC FOREST PLANNING LP FORMULATION. Presentation of the opensolver and lpsolve LP software. Daily quiz and link to the class notes: https://guarani.esalq.usp.br/moodle/course/section.php?id=32
Class 10
15 Outubro 2025, 17:45 • José Guilherme Martins Dias Calvão Borges
Revising the concepts of forest planning local optima, forest regulation and forest planning global optima. The need for comprehensive tools that can deal with real world problems, multiple criteria and several objectives/goals. Daily quiz and link to the class notes: https://guarani.esalq.usp.br/moodle/course/section.php?id=31