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{{DSS description, Name, responsible organisation and contact person
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|Name=Heureka
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|Acronym=Heureka
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|Responsible organisation=SLU
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|Type of the owner organization=higher or secondary education establishment
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|Institutional framework=other
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|Contact person for the Wiki=Tomas Lämås
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|Contact e-mail for the Wiki=tomas.lamas@slu.se
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|Contact person for the DSS=Tomas Lamas
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|Contact e-mail for the DSS=tomas.lamas@slu.se
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|Additional information=Heureka consists of several applications: StandWise, PlanWise, PlanEval and RegWise. Each of these is described seperately.
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}}
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{{DSS description, Scope of the tool
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|Description=Heureka is a system for long and medium term forestry planning and scenario analysis.
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The system covers the whole decision support process from data inventory to tools for selecting among plan alternatives with multi-criteria decision making techniques. The system is designed for both large-scale and small-scale forestry.
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The utilities handled today are
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*timber and bio-fuel production,
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*carbon sequestration,
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*biodiversity, and
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*recreation.
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|Modelling dimension=Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Contribution to forest certification
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|Temporal scale=long term (strategic), medium term (tactical)
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|Spatial context=spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
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|Spatial scale=forest level
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|Objectives dimension=multiple objectives
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|Goods and services dimension=market wood products
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|Forest management goal=biodiversity evaluation, biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, climate change impact, economic evaluation, fertilization, forest fuel harvesting, forest inventory, forest transformation, non-wood production, silvicultural regime, species selection, wildlife habitat, wood quality, yield prediction, wood supply planning, multi-functional
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|Supported silvicultural regime=even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration, uneven-aged/plantation
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|Decision making dimension=single decision maker, more than one decision maker/stakeholder
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|Participatory planning tasks supported=defining the problem, exploring options, evaluating options, monitoring and evaluating the outcome
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}}
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{{DSS description, Concrete application
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|Typical use case=Forest-level planning problem with 100 to 20000 stands and a 100 year planning horizon
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|User profile=Non-industrial private owners, forest owners associations, private legal entities (cooperatives, corporations, trusts, partnerships, condominium associations), commons, public land managers (i.e. state-owned, federal, cantonal, communal forests), national forest administration, service providers
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|Country=Sweden
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|Number of users=<=30
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|Number of real-life applications=<=30
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|Utilisation in education: kind of utilisation (demo, use)=used by students
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}}
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{{DSS description, Installation and support
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|Status=used (stable and upgraded/updated recently)
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|Accessibility=open source/public access
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|Commercial product=No
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|Deployment cost=0
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|Installation requirements=Windows, .NET 4.0, SQL Server, ArcGIS (to run application HabitatPrognosis)
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|Computational limitations=Depending on computer and problem type, about 20000 stands with 100 year time horizon
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|User support organization=SLU
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|Support team size=1
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|Maintenance organization=SLU
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|Price=
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}}
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{{DSS description, Data, data model and data management
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|Input data requirements=Forest inventory data
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|Format of the input data=text file, database, other
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|Data validation=missing/wrong data
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|Format of the output data=text file, table, graph, map, 3d-visualization, pre-defined report, pre-programmed summaries
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|Internal data management=database
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|Database=other
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|GIS integration=N/A
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|Data mining=N/A
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|Spatial analysis=Import of shape files, calculation of polygon adjacencies and border lengths, calculation of feasible contiguous harvest blocks, habitat suitability model with neighborhood dependency 
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}}
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{{DSS description, Models and methods, MBMS, decision support techniques
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|Forest models=growth models
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|Ecological models=habitat suitability
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|MCDM methods=Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
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|Optimisation package=CPLEX, LP SOLVE, Gurobi
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|Optimisation algorithm=linear programming, integer programming, mixed integer programming
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|Risk evaluation=N/A
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|Uncertainty evaluation=N/A
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|Planning scenario=RegWise is used for scenario creation
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}}
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{{DSS description, Support of knowledge management process
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|Supported KM processes=N/A
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|Integrated KM techniques to identify and structure knowledge=
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|Integrated KM techniques to analyse and apply knowledge=
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}}
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{{DSS description, Support of social participation
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|Participatory planning tasks supported=defining the problem, exploring options, evaluating options, monitoring and evaluating the outcome
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|Stakeholder identification support=No
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|Planning criteria formation support=Yes
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|Planning process monitoring and evaluation=
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}}
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{{DSS description, User interface and outputs
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|User access control=Yes
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|Parameterised GUI=No
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|User-friendliness of GUI=consistency, user control, appropriate presentation, error handling and recovery, memory-load reduction, task match, flexibility
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|Map interface=2D, 3D
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|GUI technology=.NET, DirectX
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|Additional information=3D is available at stand-level only, in Heureka StandWise.
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}}
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{{DSS description, System design and development
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|Software development methodology=SCRUM. Subversion for source code control. Bugzilla for bug tracking. Unit testing with NUnit. TeamCity build server for continuous buidling and testing, and for automatic deployment of upgrades. 
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|Methods applied in the requirement phase=Use cases, model documentation with predefined document templates, interviews
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|Methods applied in the design phase=Objectification. Test-driven development
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|Methods applied in the construction phase=Aim is to apply test-driven development, i.e. start
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|Methods applied in the testing phase=Continuous unti test with NUnit runs automatically on build server.
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|Methods applied to ensure software quality=Good code coverage by unit tests.
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|Development start year=2001
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|Number of development years (100% equivalent)=12
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|Development team size=6
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|Team profiles=project leader, system architect, test leader, software developers
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|Number of forest specialists in the development team=1
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|Number of users participating in specification=10
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|Planning criteria formation support=Yes, in optimization model and parameter settings in GUI
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}}
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{{DSS description, Technological architecture, integration with other systems
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|System type=stand-alone GUI
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|Application architecture=Multi-layered with application layer (application specific functionality and GUI), domain layer (common business logic shared by all applications) and base layer (common infrastucture).
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|Operating system=Windows
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|Programming language=C#
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|Scalability=Yes
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|Interoperability=If central server is used data can be shared. Projects and optimization models are file-based and can be shared.
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}}
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{{DSS description, Ongoing development
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|Adaptation effort (man years)=parametrised by the user
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}}
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{{DSS description, Documentation
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|Website=http://www.slu.se/heureka
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|Online demo=http://heureka.resgeom.slu.se/wiki/index.php?title=Install
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|Manual=Yes
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|Technical documentation=Yes
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}}
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* LÄMÅS, T., G. STÅHL et B. DAHLIN: ''Facts About Heureka'' ([http://www.mistra.org/download/18.1eeb372100ece243b680008169/Facts+about+Heureka.pdf pdf available])
 
* LÄMÅS, T., G. STÅHL et B. DAHLIN: ''Facts About Heureka'' ([http://www.mistra.org/download/18.1eeb372100ece243b680008169/Facts+about+Heureka.pdf pdf available])
 
* Heureka annual report 2006 (in Swedish). ([http://www.mistra.org/download/18.4b231cd511170eec10e800054613/Heureka_arsrapport06_web.pdf Heureka Årsrapport 2006])
 
* Heureka annual report 2006 (in Swedish). ([http://www.mistra.org/download/18.4b231cd511170eec10e800054613/Heureka_arsrapport06_web.pdf Heureka Årsrapport 2006])
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Revision as of 10:32, 17 August 2012

Template:DSS description, Name, responsible organisation and contact person Template:DSS description, Scope of the tool Template:DSS description, Concrete application Template:DSS description, Installation and support Template:DSS description, Data, data model and data management Template:DSS description, Models and methods, MBMS, decision support techniques Template:DSS description, Support of knowledge management process Template:DSS description, Support of social participation Template:DSS description, User interface and outputs Template:DSS description, System design and development Template:DSS description, Technological architecture, integration with other systems Template:DSS description, Ongoing development Template:DSS description, Documentation

Platform

  • Windows XP and later
  • SQL Server as database server (SQL Server Express can be used and is is free)
  • Developed in Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, programming language C#
  • Third party software: see more info here.

User interface

Availability

  • The system is freely available and can be downloaded from the internet. However, the system is not open source for the time being.
  • Currently, there are about 300 registered "downloaders". One forest company and one forest owners association have started to implement the system.

References

Cited references


External Resources

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