Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract Complex dynamic models of carbon and nitrogen are often used to investigate the consequences of climate change on agricultural production and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. These models require high ...

This article presents Semantic Spiral Timelines (SST) as an interactive visual tool aimed at the exploration and analysis of additional academic information stored in current elearning platforms. Despite the development of contents specifically for these platforms, and in spite of the various features they provide, knowledge of the actual use made by individual participants is emerging as an un...

This paper explores the task of creating a timeline for historical Wikipedia articles, such as those describing wars, battles, and invasions. It focuses on extracting only the major events from the article, particularly those associated with an absolute date. Existing tools extract all possible events, while we write tools to identify time expressions and anchor them in real time. From this set...

Planning is a core field of Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings. Broadly speaking, planning techniques aim at providing artificial agents with the capability to autonomously solve ”complex” problems. Several planning techniques have been introduced in the literature that employ different approaches for modeling and solving planning problems. My PhD research activities concern timeline-...

The Ross-Macdonald Model We use the following simple version of the Ross-Macdonald model. The parameters are described in Box #1. For a longer explanation, see [1]. The change in the PR, the prevalence of infection, is given by the equation: ˙ X = mabZ(1 − X) − rX (1) The change in the sporozoite rate, the fraction of the mosquitoes with sporozoites in their salivary glands, is modeled using th...

Retrospective analysis of agile projects can support identification of issues through team reflection and may enable learning and process improvements. Basing retrospectives primarily on experiences poses a risk of memory bias as people may remember events differently, which can lead to incorrect conclusions. This bias is enhanced in project retrospectives which cover a longer period compared t...

In this paper we study a problem of determining when entities are active based on their interactions with each other. More formally, we consider a set of entities V and a sequence of time-stamped edges E among the entities. Each edge (u, v, t) ∈ E denotes an interaction between entities u and v that takes place at time t. We view this input as a temporal network. We then assume a simple activit...

This article explores how Twitter’s algorithmic timeline influences exposure to different types of external media. We use an agent-based testing method compare chronological timelines and for a group Twitter agents that emulated real-world archetypal users. first find exposed links at roughly half the rate timelines. Despite reduced exposure, proportional makeup remained fairly stable in terms ...