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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Evolutionary Optimisation Techniques to Estimate Input Parameters in Environmental Emergency Modelling
verfasst von : Kerstin Wendt, Mónica Denham, Ana Cortés, Tomàs Margalef
Erschienen in: Computational Optimization and Applications in Engineering and Industry
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Parameter estimation in environmentalmodelling is essential for input parameters, which are difficult or impossible to measure. Especially in simulations for disaster propagation prediction, where hard real-time constraints have to be met to avoid tragedy, the additionally introduced computational burden of advanced global optimisation algorithms still hampers their use in many cases and poses an ongoing challenge. In this chapter we demonstrate how modifications of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) are able to decrease time-consuming fitness evaluations and hence to speed up parameter calibration. Knowledge from past observed catastrophe behaviour is used to guide the GA during various phases towards promising solution areas resulting in a fast convergence. Together with parallel computing techniques it becomes a viable estimation approach in environmental emergency modelling. Encouraging results were obtained in predicting forest fire spread.