A Review on the Application of Natural Computing in Environmental Informatics
It provides a synthesis for researchers in environmental informatics, but it is incremental as it reviews existing work without introducing novel findings.
This paper reviews the application of natural computing techniques in environmental informatics, examining how nature-inspired methods are used to model and analyze environmental complexity, but it does not present new results or concrete numbers.
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.