Artificial intelligence and conservation - Fang, Fei; Tambe ,Milind; Dilkina, Bistra; Plumptre, Andrew J. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Law enforcement for wildlife conservation -- Wildlife poaching forecasting based on ranger-collected data and evaluation through field tests -- Optimal patrol planning against black-box attackers -- Automatic detection of poachers and wildlife with UAVs -- Protecting coral reef ecosystems via efficient patrols -- Simultaneous optimization of strategic and tactical planning for environmental sustainability and security -- NECTAR: enforcing environmental compliance through strategically randomized factory inspections -- Connecting conservation research and implementation: building a wildfire assistant -- Probablistic inference with generating functions for animal populations -- Engaging citizen scientists in data collection for conservation -- Simulator-defined markov decision processes: a case study in managing bio-invasions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Wildlife conservation -- Technological innovations; Artificial intelligence