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Australasian Genstat Conference 2002
December 4-6, 2002

Busselton, Western Australia, Australia

Organizers
Jane Speijers - Convenor Organising Committee, Peter Clarke - Chairman Programme Committee

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Excavating for designs: SpaDes to DiGGer, spatial design search
by
Neil Coombes
NSW Agriculture

The analysis of agricultural field trials using spatial methods is now well established in Australian Departments of Agriculture. Correlation properties typically found in these trials can be used to construct efficient designs for future trials.

Reactive Tabu Search (RTS) is a search algorithm that has been adapted to the correlated design problem.  A Fortran program using RTS can find efficient designs for a range of design problems: single/multiple sites and unreplicated trials.  Multiple objectives and sequential searches may be used to control properties of the resultant designs.

Date received: October 3, 2002

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