Comparing Two Ground-Cover Measurement Methodologies for Semiarid Rangelands

Comparing Two Y∆-Based Methodologies for Realizable Model Reduction

From a background of RC interconnect models in layout-to-circuit extraction, this paper compares two realizable model reduction methodologies based on generalized Y∆ transformation. The first method represents admittances through a rational function in the s-domain, where the numerator and denominator polynomials are truncated at a user-defined order. During the Y∆ transformation, common factor...

Risk Assessment and Alternatives Assessment: Comparing Two Methodologies

The selection and use of chemicals and materials with less hazardous profiles reflects a paradigm shift from reliance on risk minimization through exposure controls to hazard avoidance. This article introduces risk assessment and alternatives assessment frameworks in order to clarify a misconception that alternatives assessment is a less effective tool to guide decision making, discusses factor...

Comparing Agent-Oriented Methodologies

Numerous methodologies for developing agent-based systems have been proposed in the literature. However, their application is still limited due to their lack of maturity. Evaluating methodologies’ strengths and weaknesses plays an important role in improving them and in developing the “next-generation” of methodologies. This paper presents a comparison of three prominent agent-oriented methodol...

Comparing Modeling Methodologies

Assessing Landsat Fractional Ground-Cover Time Series across Australia’s Arid Rangelands: Separating Grazing Impacts from Climate Variability

Suitable measures of grazing impacts on ground cover, that enable separation of the 1 effects of climatic variations, are needed to inform land managers and policy makers across the arid 2 rangelands of the Northern Territory of Australia. This work developed and tested a time-series, 3 change-point detection method for application to time series of vegetation fractional cover derived 4 from La...