Carla Gomes: Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society
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Session Summary
Sustainability is a wide interdisciplinary field composed of environmental, economic, social issues, sociology, environmental science, computational methods, models, and tools. Computer scientists can and should play a key role in increasing our efficiency of managing natural resources. Finding solutions to a particular problem can usually be extrapolated to other problem domains once similar data structures or algorithmic classes are established.
Sample Project: Wildlife Corridors
Problem: Linking core biological areas, allowing animal movement between areas.
Solution: Graph problem, it's NP hard; finding problem structure that you can exploit and potentially scale up.
The connection of subgraphs problem is applicable to a broad problem domain! E.g. social networks or disease transmission.
