Advanced operations planning in forestry

由于几个原因，森林产品工业中的决策问题是复杂的。首先，有些问题从组合的角度来看很难解决，需要先进的优化技术。其他决策问题涉及的约束是难以建模，约束表示的定性偏好，或约束时，只有专家表示，面对一个试探性的解决方案。其他决策问题是分层分解或结构化的组织筒仓，这涉及到几个决策子问题，是复杂的协调。然而，其他决策问题涉及合作或联合决策过程，涉及多个利益相关者，许多目标和偏好的权衡，以及私人信息和约束，以满足。

Decision problems in the Forest Products Industry are complex to optimize for several reasons. First, some problems are difficult to solve from a combinatorial point of view and require advanced optimization techniques. Other decision problems involve constraints that are difficult to model, constraints expressed in terms of qualitative preferences, or constraints only expressed by the expert when faced with a tentative solution. Other decision problems are hierarchically decomposed or structured as organizational silos, which involve several decision sub-problems that are complex to coordinate. Yet other decision problems involve collaborative or joint decision processes which involve several stakeholders, many objectives and preferences to tradeoff, as well as private information and constraints to satisfy.