Technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI) have a strong impact on the changes of
research and creative practices in visual arts. The growing number of research initiatives …

Cultural heritage data plays a key role in the understanding of past human history and
culture, enriches the present and prepares the future. A wealth of information is buried in …

To seek stochastic analogies in key processes related to the hydrological cycle, an extended
collection of several billions of data values from hundred thousands of worldwide stations is …

To automatically generate accurate and meaningful textual descriptions of images is an
ongoing research challenge. Recently, a lot of progress has been made by adopting …

The formation of societies is based on the dynamics of spatial clustering, which optimizes
economies of scale in the management of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. Energy and …

Clustering structures appearing from small to large scales are ubiquitous in the physical
world. Interestingly, clustering structures are omnipresent in human history too, ranging from …

Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only
on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in …

Environmental determinism is often used to explain past social collapses and to predict the
future of modern human societies. We assess the availability of natural resources and the …

The creation of innovative tools, objects and artifacts that introduce abstract ideas in the real
world is a necessary step for the evolution process and characterize the creative capacity of …

Definition The stochastic analysis in the scale domain (instead of the traditional lag or
frequency domains) is introduced as a robust means to identify, model and simulate the …