This paper describes a numerically efficient Machine Learning approach for solving the farm manager’s land allocation …. The method is based on the idea that a farm manager seeks the allocation of crops that minimizes the chance of realizing a … harvest return below some pre-determined target rate of return, a notion supported by results from financial portfolio theory …

Recently a new simulation-based optimization benchmark of groundwater contaminant source localization problems has been … at the problem from different angles to gain more insights on this class of groundwater problems. To tackle the problem …, a novel simulation-based optimization algorithm relying on an aggregated Gaussian process model, and the expected …

the allocation of farm land among the different crop enterprises they produce. In the less moisture stressed (LMS) parts … allocation to pulses and cereals that have attractive market prices to improve the returns to farming communities. …