260. Advances in Optimization Algorithms for Municipal Flood Mitigation
Invited abstract in session MA-43: Operations Research and the Common Good, stream OR and Ethics.
Monday, 8:30-10:00Room: Newlyn GR.07
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Jan Boeckmann
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| Institute for Business Analytics and Technology Transformation, Johannes-Kepler University Linz | |
| 2. | Clemens Thielen
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| TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Technical University of Munich |
Abstract
As a consequence of climate change, flash floods pose an increasing threat on mankind. Within the research project AKUT at TUM Campus Straubing, a software has beed developed that uses optimization algorithms to automatically elaborate high-quality flood mitigation concepts. This software has already been used in practice by municipalities all over Germany, and the project was awarded the EURO Prize for the Common Good 2024. In this talk, recent advances and the practical impact of the software are presented. Those reach from experiences of the go-live of the software's new, more powerful version over a genetic algorithm, which uses a convolutional neural network to evaluate damages, to an entirely new application of finding optimal locations for sandbags in the case of fluvial (river-caused) flash floods.
Keywords
- Ethics
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Sustainable Development
Status: accepted
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