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Discrete spatio-temporal modelling paradigms for environmental processes : SWOT analysis, application portfolio and Lyapunovian stability analysis
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ISBN: 9789059895102 Year: 2012 Publisher: Gent Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

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Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems : 24th IFIP WG 1.5 International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2018, Ghent, Belgium, June 20–22, 2018, Proceedings
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ISBN: 3319926756 3319926748 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 1.5 International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, AUTOMATA 2018, held in Ghent, Belgium, in June 2018. The 10 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 16 submissions. The papers highlight the major advances in the field and the development of new tools, support the development of theory and applications of CA and DCS and identify and study within an inter- and multidisciplinary context, the important fundamental aspects, concepts, notions and problems concerning CA and DCS. .

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Computer science. --- Computers. --- Mathematical logic. --- Numerical analysis. --- Computer science --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Computation by Abstract Devices. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. --- Math Applications in Computer Science. --- Numeric Computing. --- Mathematics. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer mathematics --- Discrete mathematics --- Mathematical analysis --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Mathematics --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Set theory --- Syllogism --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Informatics --- Science --- Electronic data processing. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- ADP (Data processing) --- Automatic data processing --- Data processing --- EDP (Data processing) --- IDP (Data processing) --- Integrated data processing --- Computers --- Office practice --- Automation --- Cellular automata --- Computer science—Mathematics. --- Machine theory. --- Theory of Computation. --- Formal Languages and Automata Theory. --- Mathematical Applications in Computer Science. --- Numerical Analysis. --- Abstract automata --- Abstract machines --- Automata --- Mathematical machine theory --- Algorithms --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Recursive functions --- Robotics


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Wildfire ignition probability in Belgium
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Year: 2020

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In recent decades, large wildfires have inflicted considerable damage on valuable Natura 2000 regions in Belgium. Despite these events and the general perception that global change will exacerbate wildfire prevalence, this has not been studied yet in the Belgian context. Therefore, the national government initiated the national action plan on wildfires in order to evaluate the wildfire risk, on the one hand, and the materials, procedures, and training of fire services, on the other hand.
This study focuses on the spatial distribution of the ignition probability, a component of the wildfire risk framework. In a first stage, we compile a historical wildfire database using (i) newspaper articles between 1994 and 2016 and (ii) a list of wildfire interventions between 2010 and 2013, provided by the government. In a second stage, we use a straightforward method relying on Bayes’ rule and a limited number of covariates to calculate the ignition probability.
It appears that most wildfire-prone areas in Belgium are located in heathland where military exercises are held. The provinces that have the largest relative areas with a high or very high wildfire risk are Limburg and Antwerp. Our study also revealed that most wildfire ignitions in Belgium are caused by humans (both arson and negligence) and that natural causes such as lightning are rather scarce. Wildfire prevention can be improved by (i) excluding military activity in fire-prone areas during the fire season, (ii) improving collaboration with foreign emergency services, (iii) concentrating the dedicated resources in the areas that display the highest ignition probabilities, (iv) improving fire detection methods, and (v) raising more awareness among the public.

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