StrathE2E2 (version 3.3.0)

e2e_optimize_hr: Optimize StrathE2E harvest ratio multipliers to maximum the likelihood of observed ecosystem target data.

Description

Launches a StrathE2E simulated annealing process to find the set of fishing fleet model harvest ratio multipliers producing the maximum likelihood of observed target data on the state of the ecosystem, given specified environmental driving data and ecology model parameters.

Usage

e2e_optimize_hr(
  model,
  nyears = 40,
  n_iter = 500,
  start_temperature = 1,
  cooling = 0.975,
  quiet = TRUE,
  csv.output = FALSE,
  runtime.plot = TRUE
)

Arguments

model

R-list object generated by the e2e_read() function which defined the model configuration.

nyears

Number of years to run the model in each iteration (default=40).

n_iter

Number of iterations of the model (default=500).

start_temperature

Initial value of the simulated annealing temperature parameter (default=1). Suggested values in the range 0.0005 - 5. Higher values increase the probability of rejecting parameter combinations producing an improvement in likelihood.

cooling

Rate at which the simulated annealing temperature declines with iterations (default=0.975). Suggested values in the range 0.9 - 0.985

quiet

Logical. If TRUE then suppress informational messages at the start of each iteration (default=TRUE).

csv.output

Logical. If TRUE then enable writing of csv output files (default=FALSE).

runtime.plot

Logical. If FALSE then disable runtime plotting of the progress of the run - useful for testing (default=TRUE).

Value

A list object containing the histories of proposed and accepted parameter values and the final accepted parameter values. Optionally (by default), csv files of the histories and the final accepted parameter values. The latter are returned to the model parameter folder in a format to be read back into the model.

Details

Simulated annealing is is a probabilistic technique for approximating the global optimum of a given function. As implemented here the process searches the parameter space of a model to locate the combination which maximises the likelihood of a set of observed data corresponding to a suite of derived outputs. Parameter combinations which result in an improved likelihood may be rejected according to a probability ('temperature') which decreases as the iterations progress. This is to avoid becoming stuck at local likelihood-maxima. The rate at which the 'temperature' decreases is set by a 'cooling' parameter (fraction of previous temperature at each iteration, 0<value<1).

Model configuration and initial values of the ecology model parameters need to be assembled by a prior call of the e2e_read() function.

NOTE that the models.path argument in the e2e_read() function call needs to point to a user workspace folder, not the default North Sea model provided with the package. This is because the annealing function needs write-access to the model /Param folder, but the /extdata/Models folder in the package installation is read-only. To use the annealing function on the North Sea model, use the e2e_copy() function to make a copy of the North Sea model in the user workspace.

The coefficient of variation for jiggling the harvest ratio multipliers can be varied in real-time during the run by editing the file "optimize_fishing.csv" in the folder /Param/control/ of the model version. Suggested vaues for the CV are in the range 0.1 to 0.01

The observational data to which the harvest ratio multiplier parameters are optimized are loaded from the folder Modelname/Variantname/Target/annual_observed_*.csv as part of a e2e_read() function call and are built into the R-list object generated by e2e_read(). Column 3 of annual_observed_* (header: "Use1_0") is a flag to set whether any given row is used in calculating the likelihood of the observed data given the model setup and parameters. Un-used rows of data are omitted from calculations.

The function produces a real-time graphical summary of the progress of the fitting procedure, displaying the likelihoods of the proposed and accepted parameter sets at each iteration. y-axis (likelihood of the target data) range of the real time plot can be varied during the run by editing the setup file "optimize_fishing.csv"

At the end of the procedure (provided that the argument csv.output=TRUE) a new version of the harvest ratio multipliers file is exported to the folder /Param of the model version, with a user defined identifier specified by the model.ident argument in the e2e_read() function. These new harvest ratio multipliers are also saved in the list object returned by the function.

To preserve the new harvest ratio multipliers and incorporate them into the fishing fleet model parameterisation the multiplier values need to be applied to the scaling parameters which link the integrated effort by each gear to the harvest ratio value which gets piped into the ecology model. Manually update the values in rows 12-21 (excluding the header row) of the file /Param/fishing_fleet_*.csv, by multiplying the existing values by the new multipliers emerging from the annealing process.

If the edited file 'fishing_fleet_*.csv' is saved with a new identifier (*) then in order to use it in a subsequent run of the StrathE2E model (using the e2e_run() function) it will be necessary to edit the MODEL_SETUP.csv file in the relevant /Models/variant folder to point to the new file.

Also at the end of the procedure the histories of proposed and accepted harvest ratio multipier values and corresponding likleihoods from each iteration of the procedure are saved as CSV files in the results folder (provided that the argument csv.output=TRUE), and in the list object which is returned by the function. The two csv files generated by the procedure have names: annealing_HRmult_proposalhistory-*, annealing_HRmult_acceptedhistory-*, where * denotes the value of model.ident defined in the preceding e2e_read() function call. The returned list object contains three dataframes: parameter_proposal_history, parameter_accepted_history, new_parameter_data (a list of three). The proposal and accepted histories can be further analysed with the function e2e_plot_opt_diagnostics() to assess the performance of the optimization process.

See Also

e2e_ls , e2e_read , e2e_plot_opt_diagnostics , e2e_optimize_eco , e2e_optimize_act

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Load the 1970-1999 version of the North Sea model supplied with the package and generate a
# quick test data object with only 8 itereations and running the model for only 3 years.
# Also, the final parameter values are not saved back to the model Param folder.
# More realistic would be at least 500 iterations and running for 50 years.
# Even so this example will take a few minutes to run:
    model<-e2e_read(model.name="North_Sea",
                    model.variant="1970-1999",
                    model.ident="test")
# This model is already optimized to the observed ecosystem data supplied with the package
# so we perturb the temperature driving to knock the model away from its maximum likelihood
# state relative to the target data and illustrate the performance of the process:
# add 3 degC to upper layer offshore temperatures:
    model$data$physics.drivers$so_temp <- model$data$physics.drivers$so_temp+3
# add 3 degC to inshore temperatures:
    model$data$physics.drivers$si_temp <- model$data$physics.drivers$si_temp+3
# add 3 degC to lower layer offshore temperatures:
    model$data$physics.drivers$d_temp  <- model$data$physics.drivers$d_temp+3
    test_run  <- e2e_optimize_hr(model, nyears=3, n_iter=8, start_temperature=0.4,
                                 csv.output=FALSE)
# View the structure of the returned list:
    str(test_run,max.level=1)
# View the structure of the returned list element containing parameter objects:
    str(test_run$new_parameter_data,max.level=1)
# View the new, final accepted parameter data:
    test_run$new_parameter_data
# }
# NOT RUN {
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This is a dummy example to illustrate a realistic run in which optimised
# parameters are written back to the model Param folder. To try it out substitute 
# your own relative folder path in place of \Folder in the e2e_copy() function...
# WARNING - this will take about 26 hours to run...
# Copy the 1970-1999 version of the North Sea model supplied with the package into a
# user workspace relative to the current working directory (../Folder):
#    e2e_copy("North_Sea", "1970-1999",
#              dest.path="Folder")
# Load the copied version of the North Sea/1970-1999 model from the user workspace
# and assign a path for results data:
# (REPLACE "Folder/Models" and "Folder/results" with your own paths before running)
#    model<-e2e_read(model.name="North_Sea",
#                    model.variant="1970-1999",
#                    models.path="Folder/Models",
#                    results.path="Folder/results",
#                    model.ident="fittingrun")
# Launch the fitting process
#    fitting_data <- e2e_optimize_hr(model, nyears=50, n_iter=500, start_temperature=1,
#                                    csv.output=TRUE)

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# }