Adaptive Analysis of Locally Complex Systems in a Globally Complex World

Conservation Ecology: Adaptive Analysis of Locally Complex Systems in a Globally Complex World

Zambezi Valley agro-ecosystems are environmentally, economically, and institutionally variable. This variability means that it is not possible to measure everything necessary to develop a predictive understanding of them. In particular, because people and their environments are constantly changing, what was measured yesterday may change by tomorrow. Here, I describe elements of the approach tha...

Extracting the Globally and Locally Adaptive Backbone of Complex Networks

A complex network is a useful tool for representing and analyzing complex systems, such as the world-wide web and transportation systems. However, the growing size of complex networks is becoming an obstacle to the understanding of the topological structure and their characteristics. In this study, a globally and locally adaptive network backbone (GLANB) extraction method is proposed. The GLANB...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Complicate Locally, Simplify Globally: Starting with Complex Primitives Pays Off

In setting up a formal system to specify a grammar formalism, the conventional (mathematical) wisdom is to start with primitives (basic primitive structures) as simple as possible and then to introduce various operations for constructing more complex structures. An alternate approach is to start with more complex primitives, which directly capture some crucial linguistic properties and then to ...

Starting with complex primitives pays off: complicate locally, simplify globally

In setting up a formal system to specify a grammar formalism, the conventional (mathematical) wisdom is to start with primitives (basic primitive structures) as simple as possible, and then introduce various operations for constructing more complex structures. An alternate approach is to start with complex (more complicated) primitives, which directly capture some crucial linguistic properties ...