Contributed Discussion on Article by Pratola

Automatic characterization of sub-urban environments by using VHR X-band COSMO-SkyMed images

Bayesian Calibration of Multistate Stochastic Simulators

Inference on large-scale models is of great interest in modern science. Examples include deterministic simulators of fluid dynamics to recover the source of a pollutant, and stochastic agent-based simulators to infer features of consumer behaviour. When computational constraints prohibit model evaluation at all but a small ensemble of parameter settings, exact inference is infeasible. In such c...

The challenges of hydrogen and metals.

The Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting 'The challenges of hydrogen and metals' was held in Carlton House Terrace, London, UK, on 16-18 January 2017. This is the introductory article to the discussion meeting issue which includes contributed papers and seven discussion papers. Here, we introduce the motivation to hold the Meeting and give a brief overview of the contents. We conclude wi...

Maintaining Live Discussion in Two-Stage Open Peer Review

Open peer review has been proposed for a number of reasons, in particular, for increasing the transparency of the article selection process for a journal, and for obtaining a broader basis for feedback to the authors and for the acceptance decision. The review discussion may also in itself have a value for the research community. These goals rely on the existence of a lively review discussion, ...

A library of eyes in Go II: Monolithic eyes

We describe the generation of a library of eyes surrounded by only one chain which we call monolithic eyes. Apart from applying the library in the life & death program GoTools it also can be used as a source for the study of unusual positions in Go as done in the second half of the paper.