Within the field of species distribution modelling an apparent dichotomy exists between
process‐based and correlative approaches, where the processes are explicit in the former …

Aim Decision‐making for conservation management often involves evaluating risks in the
face of environmental uncertainty. Models support decision‐making by (1) synthesizing …

The essential textbook on agent-based modeling—now fully updated and expanded Agent-
Based and Individual-Based Modeling has become the standard textbook on the subject for …

Reservoir stimulation and artificial lift are the two main activities of the production engineer
in the petroleum and related industries. The main purpose of stimulation is to enhance the …

The abstract concept of “information” can be quantified and this has led to many important
advances in the analysis of data in the empirical sciences. This text focuses on a science …

Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These
computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population …

Educators, researchers, and policy makers have advocated student involvement for some
time as an essential aspect of meaningful learning. In the past twenty years engineering …

revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to
lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to “best” achieve its goals when faced …

There is no doubt about the importance of assessment: it defines what students regard as
important, how they spend their time and how they come to see themselves-it is a necessary …

Since the new ABET accreditation system was first introduced to American engineering
education in the middle 1990s as Engineering Criteria 2000, most discussion in the …