Natural computing offers new opportunities to understand, model and analyze the complexity of the physical and human-created environment. This paper examines the application of natural computing in environmental informatics, by investigating related work in this research field. Various nature-inspired techniques are presented, which have been employed to solve different relevant problems. Advantages and disadvantages of these techniques are discussed, together with analysis of how natural computing is generally used in environmental research.
翻译:自然计算为了解、模拟和分析物理和人类创造的环境的复杂性提供了新的机会。本文件通过调查这一研究领域的有关工作,审查了自然计算在环境信息学中的应用情况。介绍了各种自然启发技术,这些技术被用于解决不同的相关问题。讨论了这些技术的优点和缺点,并分析了自然计算在环境研究中一般使用的方式。