Fire played an important role in maintaining and creating conditions suitable for native flora and fauna in the forests of western North America. Recent coarse filter conservation strategies have advocated creating future landscapes that incorporate historic or natural ranges of variability, including fire regimes. Historic fire regimes were variable across the West, and created quite unique co...

This article describes some work in the domain of application execution time prediction, which is always necessary for schedulers. We define a hybrid method of time prediction that is both profile-based and historic-based. This prediction is achieved by combining a program structure analysis with an instance-based learning method. We demonstrate that taking account of an application's profile i...