verbosity at the flood

A GIS-based Flood Risk Assessment Tool: Supporting Flood Incident Management at the local scale

Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty.

China's historiographical traditions tell of the successful control of a Great Flood leading to the establishment of the Xia dynasty and the beginning of civilization. However, the historicity of the flood and Xia remain controversial. Here, we reconstruct an earthquake-induced landslide dam outburst flood on the Yellow River about 1920 BCE that ranks as one of the largest freshwater floods of ...

On Verbosity Levels In Cognitive Problem Solvers

The aim o f t h e paper i s t o d i s c u s s s e v e r a l i s s u e s t h a t u s u a l l y o c c u r when c o m p u t a t i o n a l l i n g u i s t i c s comes i n t o i n t e r a c t i o n s w i t h so r a p i d l y g rowing s~eas o f a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g ence as i t can be s e e n e . g . i n d e s i g n i n g e x p e r t and c o n s u l t i n g sys tems or i n t h e a r e a...

Flood-it on AT-Free Graphs

Solitaire Flood-it, orHoney-Bee, is a game played on a colored graph. The player resides in a source vertex. Originally his territory is the maximal connected, monochromatic subgraph that contains the source. A move consists of calling a color. This conquers all the nodes of the graph that can be reached by a monochromatic path of that color from the current territory of the player. It is the a...

Using Verbosity: Common Sense Data from Games with a Purpose

Verbosity, a “game with a purpose”, uses the collective activity of people playing an Internet word game as a body of common sense knowledge. One purpose of Verbosity has always been to provide large quantities of input for a common sense knowledge base, and we have now achieved this purpose by connecting it to the Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project. Verbosity now serves as a way to contribu...