After decades of concurrent development of symbolic and connectionist methods, recent years have shown intensifying efforts of integrating those two paradigms. This paper contributes to the development of methods for transferring present symbolic knowledge into connectionist representations. Motivated by basic ideas from formal concept analysis, we propose two ways of directly encoding closure ...

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Tree-killing bark beetles are globally the most destructive forest pests and their impacts have increased in recent decades. Such an increase has been consistently reported from Europe North America, it is, with high confidence, driven by climate change. We investigated how scientific community both continents responded to this situation conducting a comprehensive search of Scopus database 1970...

Abstract Devastating Japan in October 2019, Supertyphoon (STY) Hagibis was an important typhoon the history of Pacific. A striking feature its explosive rapid intensification (RI). In 24 h, intensified by 100 knots (kt; 1 kt ? 0.51 m s ?1 ), making it one fastest-intensifying typhoons ever observed. After RI, Hagibis’s stalled. Using current intensity record holder, i.e., STY Haiyan (2013), as ...