Incorporating dynamic distributions into spatial prioritization

Incorporating evolutionary measures into conservation prioritization.

Conservation prioritization is dominated by the threat status of candidate species. However, species differ markedly in the shared genetic information they embody, and this information is not taken into account if species are prioritized by threat status alone. We developed a system of prioritization that incorporates both threat status and genetic information and applied it to 9546 species of ...

Incorporating geographical and evolutionary rarity into conservation prioritization.

Key goals of conservation are to protect both species and the functional and genetic diversity they represent. A strictly species-based approach may underrepresent rare, threatened, or genetically distinct species and overrepresent widespread species. Although reserves are created for a number of reasons, including economic, cultural, and ecological reasons, their efficacy has been measured pri...

Incorporating Spatial Similarity into Ensemble Clustering

This paper addresses a fundamental problem in ensemble clustering – namely, how should one compare the similarity of two clusterings? The vast majority of prior techniques for comparing clusterings are entirely partitional, i.e., they examine assignments of points in set theoretic terms after they have been partitioned. In doing so, these methods ignore the spatial layout of the data, disregard...

Incorporating Resilience into Dynamic Social Models

Incorporating Metadata into Dynamic Topic Analysis

Everyday millions of blogs and micro-blogs are posted on the Internet These posts usually come with useful metadata, such as tags, authors, locations, etc. Much of these data are highly specific or personalized. Tracking the evolution of these data helps us to discover trending topics and users’ interests, which are key factors in recommendation and advertisement placement systems. In this pape...