MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4323566769 · doi:10.1080/14942119.2023.2185181

Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment

2023· article· en· W4323566769 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Forest Engineering · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMining Techniques and Economics
Canadian institutionsWestern Forest ProductsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacs
KeywordsScheduling (production processes)Computer scienceLoggingOperations researchEngineeringForestryOperations management

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

It is crucial to efficiently schedule harvesting activities in order to reduce the delivered cost of logs. Mathematical models have been used to optimize the harvest scheduling at the operational level. However, in the existing literature, the number of machines assigned for each activity at each cut block was not considered as a decision variable. Also, the impact of the slope of cut blocks on the precedence relationship between harvesting activities was not considered in tprevious studies. In this work, a mathematical model is developed with the possibility of assigning multiple machines for the same harvest activity at each cut block, considering the precedence relationship between activities based on the slope of cut blocks in order to minimize the total cost of harvesting. This work is an extension of our previous work on detailed scheduling of harvesting. The model is applied to the harvesting operations of a large forest company in Coastal British Columbia, Canada. The model’s result for operating cost is only 3.3% higher than the lowest possible operating cost. Only one machine has an idle time. For the same case study, the total cost of the developed model is about 34% lower than that of the previous model.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.133
Threshold uncertainty score0.486

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it