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Edmundo Molina-Perez¹, Oscar A Esquivel-Flores², Hilda Zamora-Maldonado³

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Addressing complex sustainability challenges, like climate change mitigation, benefits from advanced computational tools. Combining high-performance computing and artificial intelligence offers deeper insights than traditional methods.

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Environmental science
Computational science
Systems analysis

Background:

Sustainability challenges involve complex, uncertain, coupled systems.
Traditional analytical methods provide limited insights for these challenges.
Global climate change mitigation serves as a key case study.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate the utility of computational tools for sustainability challenges.
To analyze the effectiveness of specific computational methods in climate change mitigation.
To propose a framework for applying computational tools to sustainability.

Main Methods:

Utilizing high-performance computing (HPC).
Employing mathematical modeling techniques.
Integrating computational intelligence tools, including optimization and clustering algorithms.

Main Results:

The combination of HPC, mathematical modeling, and computational intelligence yields richer analytical insights.
This integrated approach enhances understanding of complex systems like climate change mitigation.
Demonstrated improved analytical capabilities for sustainability problem-solving.

Conclusions:

Advanced computational tools are essential for tackling complex sustainability issues.
An analytical hierarchy of computational tools can guide future research.
The proposed framework is applicable to a range of sustainability challenges beyond climate change.