Artificial intelligence and conservation / edited by Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University, Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, Bistra Dilkina, Georgia Institute of Technology, Andrew J. Plumptre, Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law enforcement for wildlife conservation -- Wildlife poaching forecasting based on ranger-collected data and evaluation through field tests -- Optimal patrol planning against black-box attackers -- Automatic detection of poachers and wildlife with UAVs -- Protecting coral reef ecosystems via efficient patrols -- Simultaneous optimization of strategic and tactical planning for environmental sustainability and security -- NECTAR: enforcing environmental compliance through strategically randomized factory inspections -- Connecting conservation research and implementation: building a wildfire assistant -- Probablistic inference with generating functions for animal populations -- Engaging citizen scientists in data collection for conservation -- Simulator-defined markov decision processes: a case study in managing bio-invasions.