Publications

Decadal global temperature variability increases strongly with climate sensitivity

Publication ID: pub.1118149568

Publication date: 22/07/2019

Keywords: Climate Change; Climate-related Risk; Cooling; Decadal; Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity; GHGs; Global Models; Temperature Variability; Timescales; Trend; Warming Rates

Climate-related risks are dependent not only on the warming trend from GHGs, but also on the variability about the trend. However, assessment of the impacts of climate change tends to focus on the ultimate level of global warming1, only occasionally on the rate of global warming, and rarely on variability about the trend. Here we […]

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

Publication ID: pub.1118033608

Publication date: 16/07/2019

Keywords: Brazil; Group Dynamics; Ideology Estimation; Political Parties; Social Networks

Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the most powerful social structures in modern democracies, the political parties. Due to the influence and importance of political parties in society, estimating their ideology is an […]

Multiobjective shape design in a ventilation system with a preference-driven surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm

Publication ID: pub.1117747643

Publication date: 13/07/2019

Keywords: Computational Cost; Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization; Machine Learning; Metamodel; Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Optimal Shape Design; Pareto Optimality; Preference Information

We formulate and solve a real-world shape design optimization problem of an air intake ventilation system in a tractor cabin by using a preference-based surrogate-assisted evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm. We are motivated by practical applicability and focus on two main challenges faced by practitioners in industry: 1) meaningful formulation of the optimization problem reflecting the […]

A feature rich distance-based many-objective visualisable test problem generator

Publication ID: pub.1117747625

Publication date: 13/07/2019

Keywords: Bench-marking; Evolutionary Optimisation; Multi-objective Test Problems; Test Suite; Visualisation

In optimiser analysis and design it is informative to visualise how a search point/population moves through the design space over time. Visualisable distance-based many-objective optimisation problems have been developed whose design space is in two-dimensions with arbitrarily many objective dimensions. Previous work has shown how disconnected Pareto sets may be formed, how problems can be […]

Many unreported crop pests and pathogens are probably already present

Publication ID: pub.1117483059

Publication date: 24/06/2019

Keywords: Agriculture; Brazil; China; Ecosystem; India

Invasive species threaten global biodiversity, food security and ecosystem function. Such incursions present challenges to agriculture where invasive species cause significant crop damage and require major economic investment to control production losses. Pest risk analysis (PRA) is key to prioritize agricultural biosecurity efforts, but is hampered by incomplete knowledge of current crop pest and pathogen […]

Anarchism and non-domination

Publication ID: pub.1117482456

Publication date: 24/06/2019

Keywords: Anarchism; Conservative; Freedom; Neo-Roman; Non-domination; Private; Property; Republican; State; Tyranny and Slavery

In this article we recover the classical anarchist deployment of republican tropes of non-domination, tyranny and slavery, to expose the conservative limits of the contemporary neo-Roman republican revival. For the anarchists, the modern nation state and the institution of private property are antithetical to freedom as non-domination, acting as structural constraints to freedom rather than […]