Small Island Visitor Attractions

An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Visitor Behaviours for China Tourism Attractions

In order to manage visitors in tourism attractions in a predicted rather than a reactive way, this paper proposed an agent-based simulation model for visitor management of China tourism attractions. The model integrated Repast Simphony (Repast S) modelling framework with geography information system ArcGIS’s Shape data model and runs on Repast S running platform. Visitors were modelled as artif...

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Sequence analysis The hot topic in sequence analysis is hidden Markov models (HMMs). Rather than looking at related protein sequences as clusters of pairwise alignments, HMMs abstract from a family of related sequences a probability model that can be used to predict whether a novel sequence is a member of the family. Some nifty mathematics are needed for accurate HMMs, but once created they can...

Small Island States

Recognition of Tourist Attractions

With the mass of images we are presented with everyday, there are many times when we see a photo of a place that we would like to visit but are unable to determine where it is. The ability to recognize landmarks from images can be extremely useful both when choosing a travel destination and when trying to identify landmarks in a foreign place. Our project aims to be able to recognize the specif...

Small island biogeography in the Gulf of California: lizards, the subsidized island biogeography hypothesis, and the small island effect

Aim We used insular lizard communities to test the predictions of two hypotheses that attempt to explain patterns of species richness on small islands. We first address the subsidized island biogeography (SIB) hypothesis, which predicts that spatial subsidies may cause insular species richness to deviate from species–area predictions, especially on small islands. Next, we examine the small isla...