Fire behaviour models are used to assess the potential characteristics of wildland fires such as rates of spread, fireline intensity and flame length. These calculations help support fire management strategies while keeping fireline personnel safe. Live fuel moisture is an important component of fire behaviour models but the sensitivity of existing models to live fuel moisture has not been thor...

The use of mathematical morphology in the L*a*b* colour space is discussed. Initially, a description of the characteristics of the L*a*b* space and a comparison to the HLS space are given. This is followed by a theoretical demonstration of the use of weighting functions to impose a complete order on a vector space. Various colour weighting functions are considered, and one based on a model of a...

As this is the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations it is appropriate to start with a work that attempts to provide a theoretical framework for how and why videogames can move and influence people’s lives. The question of how well Bogost achieves this goal depends upon the audience. While Bogost’s thesis is ripe for a mainstream discussion, th...