Test (all options have to be dealt with) Flashcards

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Richtig (Green) – Falsch (Red) – Who knows? (Blue/Black)

  1. Machine learning → incremental learner?
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Right (Green):

a) algorithm that learn iteratively with each provided data input
b) decreases error rate

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  1. Least square method → linear?
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Right (Green):

a) linear classifier
b) linear regression

Black:
predictive modelling

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  1. Hysteresis refers to what?
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Right (Green):
a) Dynamic system – depends on history – take one of several different states with the same parameter values.

False (Right);

b) Bandwidth of possible system
c) Rapid phase transition

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  1. Netlogo behaviour space function?
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Right (Green):

b) perform parameter sweeps for statistic evaluation
c) exclude particular behaviours of system

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  1. Power-law distribution?
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Right: a) interaction among distributed instances

False: b) also seen in body size

Right: c) found in wealth distribution

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  1. Bush fire example?
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Right:

a) rapid phase
c) non-linear change

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  1. Cusp catastrophe?
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- History (hysteresis)

  • One of the 7 elementary catastrophes described by the catastrophe theory
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  1. Shannon information → carry information?
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- more info than others are more often occurring

  • rare signs have higher surprise value
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  1. Preferential attachment?
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- Power law distribution

  • This model generates these networks by a process of “preferential attachment”, in which new network members prefer to make a connection to the more popular existing members.
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  1. Machine learning → data discrimination?
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S. 55: Linear discrimination (or segmentation) of data refers to a set of methods in machine learning which are able to distinguish - and to some extent predict membership in - different classes by way of a linear combination - a weighted sum - of the attributes of the data. This discrimination is usually given in the form of a straight separation line - the linear discriminant.
•	Linear regression
•	Linear classification
•	Predictive modelling
•	Support Vector Machine
•	Logistic regression
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  1. Jacobian matrix → classify equilibria, defines links between hysteresis, nodes, allows, determine
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Right:
- Used to classify equilibria in dynamic systems

Wrong:

  • Defines links between nodes in a graph?
  • Hysteresis?
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  1. Jacobian matrix, define the determinant?
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Right:
Det=a11a22 – a12a21

Trace= a11+a22

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  1. Python-Code → What does it? What is matplotlib?
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Shows a squared list of integers

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  1. Intinerant or strange attractor?
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An attractor is an invariant subset of a phase space towards which dynamical systems tend to evolve in discrete time regardless of their starting conditions. Simple attractors can be fixed points, sets of points, limit cycles or manifolds. More interesting attractors are “strange”, “chaotic” or “itinerant” attractors, which span an array of possible states in which a dynamical system can roam around without repeating itself.
The following interactive model presents some examples of “strange attractors”.
The Lorenz attractor - butterfly effect
The Peter de Jong attractor
The Hénon attractor
The Rössler attractor
The Standard attractor

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  1. A positive Lyapunov exponent is what?
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Right:
- Indicates a dynamic equilibrium within a bandwidth of the phase space

  • Positive = diverge
  • Negative = converge
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  1. N-body problem illustrates?
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Possibility of deterministic chaos in dynamical systems

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  1. Term frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) matrix?
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Rare words are weighted more heavily than often used words.

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  1. Unstable fixed point equilibrium is indicated if the real parts of the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix are……?
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Find answer to that question!

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  1. Machine learning-accuracy indicates?
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Right:

  • Accuracy indicating the degree of closeness of a classification to the actual (true) values
  • Accuracy = TP + TN / (TP + FP + TN + FN)
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  1. Using k-nearest neighbour’s classifier it is better to consider → small, odd or large groups?
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Right:

Odd

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  1. Bayes rule conforms to the following formula?
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Right:

p(B∣A)=p(A∣B)∗p(B)/p(A)

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  1. Precision of machine learning algorithm can be assessed as?
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Right:
- Indicating the degree of which repeated classifications under unchanged conditions will show the same results.

  • Precision = TP/(TP + FP)
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  1. Entropy?
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Right:
- A measure of disorder

Who knows?:
A measure to inform about density??

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  1. Term graceful degradation refers to?
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Right:
- Low sensitivity to loss of single neurons or links

Who knows?:
Trained neural networks show low sensitivity?

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  1. Term “bag of words” refers to?
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Right:

Unstructured way a document words are stored for further processing.

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  1. Part-of-speech-identification?
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Right:
- Tags the words of a sentence with the function they have in this sentence

Who knows?:

  • Identifies the sentiment value?
  • Allegation, question?
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  1. Term “information gain” refers to → methodology, complexity, pure data set can generate?
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Right:

Methodology to infer data features that are likely to be indicative for given target values

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  1. A confusion matrix → contains information from?
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Right:
- Information from which accuracy and precision can be calculated

Who knows? :

  • Word-document relation can be estimated?
  • (Word document relations →I don’t know if that’s really true or incorrect

False:
- Stability of fixed points can be calculated?

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  1. Technique of Latent semantic analysis?
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RIght:
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), also known as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), is a mathematical method that tries to bring out latent relationships within a collection of documents. It is based on the assumption that words close in meaning will occur in similar pieces of text. Rather than looking at each document by itself, LSA looks at a corpus of documents as a whole and analyses the correlation and context of terms within this corpus in order to identify relationships. A typical example would be a search engine search for the term “sand” which among others also returns documents that do not contain the term “sand” but contain terms like “beach”.

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  1. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is used to generate?
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Right:

Is used to generate a reduced dimensional representation of the TD IDF matrix

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  1. Machine learning, correctly classified instances are comprised as → Ture false, false positive and so on…..?
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Right:

True positives, True negatives

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  1. A perceptron is?
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Right:

a) An instance of a linear data discrimination tool
b) Predecessor of artificial neural network

Who knows?:
c) Unit of observation?

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  1. In the context of artificial neural networks, back propagation refers to?
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Right:
c) neural networks with more than one hidden layer of neurons

Who knows?:

  • neural networks with more than 2 input?
  • Without hidden layers?
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  1. The working principles of a support vector machine are → increasing……?
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False:
a) increasing the margin on both sides of the separation line and rewarding incorrectly classified points.

Right:
b) increasing the margin on both sides of the separation line and penalizing incorrectly classified points.

False:
c) rewarding correctly classified

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  1. In machine learning, logistic regression is an instance of → penalizing linear data discrimination tool, nonlinear data discrimination tool, …….?
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Right:

a) penalizing classifier
b) a linear data discrimination tool

Black (who knows?*):
Penalizing – Support Vector Machine and Logistic regression

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What is a customer need, want and demand?

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Find Answer

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What are evaluation criteria - dimensions for when you assess gates of stage gate model?

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Find answer (I guess it’s the theory used in Product development course):

A Stage-Gate System is a conceptual and operational road map for moving a new-product project from idea to launch. Stage-Gate divides the effort into distinct stages separated by management decision gates (gatekeeping). Cross-functional teams must successfully complete a prescribed set of related cross-functional activities in each stage prior to obtaining management approval to proceed to the next stage of product development.

In the typical Stage-Gate model, there are 5 stages, in addition to the Idea Discovery Stage:

Stage 0 – Idea Discovery
Pre-work designed to discover and uncover business opportunities and generate new ideas.

Gate 1 - Idea Sreen
Stage 1 – Scoping
Quick, inexpensive preliminary investigation and scoping of the project – largely desk research.

Gate 2 - Second screen
Stage 2 – Build the Business Case
Detailed investigation involving primary research – both market and technical – leading to a Business Case, including product and project definition, project justification, and the proposed plan for development.

Gate 3 - Go to development
Stage 3 – Development
The actual detailed design and development of the new product and the design of the operations or production process required for eventual full scale production.

Gate 4 - Go to testing
Stage 4 – Testing and Validation
Tests or trials in the marketplace, lab, and plant to verify and validate the proposed new product, brand/marketing plan and production/operations.

Gate 5 - Go to Launch
Stage 5 – Launch
Commercialization – beginning of full-scale operations or production, marketing, and selling.

Gates:
Preceeding each stage, a project passes through a gate where a decision is made whether or not to continue investing in the project (a Go/Kill decision). These serve as quality-control checkpoints with three goals: ensure quality of execution, evaluate business rationale, and approve the project plan and resources.

Each gate is structured in a similar way:

Deliverables: The project leader and team provide Gatekeepers with the high-level results of the activities completed during the previous stage.

Criteria: The project is measured against a defined set of success criteria that every new product project is measured against. Criteria should be robust to help screen out winning products, sooner. The authentic Stage-Gate process incorporates 6 proven criteria: Strategic Fit, Product and Competitive Advantage, Market Attractiveness, Technical Feasibility, Synergies/Core Competencies, Financial Reward/Risk.

Outputs: A decision is made (Go/Kill/Hold/Recycle). New product development resources are committed to continuing the project. The action plan for the next stage is approved. A list of deliverables and date for the next gate is set.

The Stage-Gate model is designed to improve the speed and quality of execution of new product development activities. The process helps project teams prepare the right information, with the right level of detail, at the right gate to support the best decision possible, and allocate capital and operating resources. The process empowers the project team by providing them with a roadmap, with clear decisions, priorities, and deliverables at each gate. Higher quality deliverables submitted to Gatekeepers enables timely decisions.

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What is strategic bucket? How many types there are?

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Find

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What are the types of innovation?

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Find

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Make a job map

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Find

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What is Bifurcation?

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The behavior of the solution of a dynamical system may change abruptly as a function of some control parameter. The most commonly observed transitions in dynamical states are bifurcations.

A bifurcation is a qualitative, topological change of a system’s phase space that occurs when some parameters are slightly varied across a critical thresholds and the stability of an equilibrium point changes between stable and unstable. This is the case when the eigenvalues λiλi of the Jacobian matrix at an equilibrium point satisfy the following:
For discrete-time models: λi=1 for some i , while λi

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What are early warning signals?

How many of them? (5)

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Methodology they call Early Warning Signals is used to detect critical transitions.

The potential of dynamical systems to shift abruptly from one equilibrium to another triggers huge interest for attempts to prevent system collapses such as market crashes, aprupt climate changes or catastrophic shifts in fish or wildlife populations (Scheffer et al. 2009). The biggest challenge is to predict the “tipping points” where these sudden changes may happen (Scheffer et al. 2009). Several indicators have been pinpointed: critical slowing down, the so called flickering, an increasing autocorrelation, increasing variance and increasing skewness.

The tipping point at which the system changes its state (at which the lake switches from clear to turbide water) lies at r=0.6

  1. Critical Slowing Down
    The most prominent indicator in the conception of EWS is critical slowing down suggesting that a decreasing rate of recovery from small perturbations predicts the approachment of a tipping point (i.e. a critical transition).
  2. Flickering
    Another noticable Early Warning Signal is a system’s back and forth oscillation between two stable states close to a critical transition. This oscillation has been called flickering and was observed among others on the model of lake eutrophication (Wang et al. 2012).
  3. Increasing variance
    As yet other Early Warning Signals increasing variance (respectively standard deviation) and increasing autocorrelation in noise-induced oscillations have been reported.
  4. Increasing Autocorrelation
    Autocorrelation is a cross-correlation of data with itself at different points in time. It measures the similarity between observations as a function of the time lag between them. The following two pieces of code consider a time-lag of 1, indicating an increasing self-similarity of system states when approaching the tipping point. While the first piece just shows autocorrelation-values in relation to r , the second piece visualizes the autocorrelation of data points in respect to four distinct values of r . The plots position data points on the x -axes in respect to their values at t+1 on the y -axes.
  5. Skewness and Kurtosis
    Two more phenomena, observed when approaching a critical transition and thus suggested as Early Warning signals, are changes in the skewness and kurtosis of the distribution of noisy system states. While skewness indicates asymmetry in the distribution - with a negative skew indicating a right-sided concentration (a longer tail on the left side) and a positive skew indicating the opposite - , kurtosis is a measure of the “peakedness” of the distribution - with positive kurtosis indicating a peak higher than the one of a normal distribution and negative kurtosis indicating a lower peak. The following code generates plots showing the devolpment of skewness and kurtosis when r reaches the tipping point and two histograms showing distributions of system states at different values of r .
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What is Value Decomposition (SCVP)

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In linear algebra, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is a factorization of a real or complex matrix. It is the generalization of the eigendecomposition of a positive semidefinite normal matrix (for example, a symmetric matrix with positive eigenvalues) to any {\displaystyle m\times n} matrix via an extension of polar decomposition. It has many useful applications in signal processing and statistics.

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what are 7 elementary catastrophes described in catastrophe theory?

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  1. Fold catastrophe
  2. Cusp catastrophe
  3. Swallowtail catastrophe
  4. Butterfly catastrophe
  5. Hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe
  6. Elliptic umbilic catastrophe
  7. Parabolic umbilic catastrophe
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what is catastrophe theory?

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In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.

It considers the special case where the long-run stable equilibrium can be identified with the minimum of a smooth, well-defined potential function (Lyapunov function).

Small changes in certain parameters of a nonlinear system can cause equilibria to appear or disappear, or to change from attracting to repelling and vice versa, leading to large and sudden changes of the behaviour of the system. However, examined in a larger parameter space, catastrophe theory reveals that such bifurcation points tend to occur as part of well-defined qualitative geometrical structures.

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What is Predator-Prey system?

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predator–prey equations, are a pair of first-order, non-linear, differential equations frequently used to describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact, one as a predator and the other as prey. The populations change through time according to the pair of equations:

The Lotka–Volterra model makes a number of assumptions about the environment and evolution of the predator and prey populations:

  1. The prey population finds ample food at all times.
  2. The food supply of the predator population depends entirely on the size of the prey population.
  3. The rate of change of population is proportional to its size.
  4. During the process, the environment does not change in favour of one species and genetic adaptation is inconsequential.
  5. Predators have limitless appetite.

As differential equations are used, the solution is deterministic and continuous. This, in turn, implies that the generations of both the predator and prey are continually overlapping.

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Equation-based versus agent-based modeling? Expaln each and say what’s the difference?

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Basically, two modeling paradigms can be discerned:

Equation-based modeling - EBM, aka System Dynamics
Agent-based modeling – ABM, aka individual-based or multi-agent modeling

EBM (top down, focus on Macro systems)
builds on an interrelation of a set of equations that captures the variability of a system over time (ordinary differential equations - ODEs) or over time and space (partial differential equations - PDEs)
In sum, EBM seems well-suited to represent physical processes (or processes that can be seen as such without loss). It suggests regarding a system as a whole in the first place and does not support an explicit representation of components (agents). To some extent hence, EBM has to be regarded as top-down technology. It is most naturally applied to systems that can be modeled centrally, and in which the dynamics are dominated by physical laws rather than by information processing.

ABM (Down-top, focus on Micro)
usually starts out with modeling properties and behavior of individual agents and only thereafter considers macro-level effects to emerge from the aggregation of agents’ behavior. In ABM, the individual agent is the explicit subject to the modeling effort. The system – e.g. swarm behavior – is expected to emerge from the interaction of individual agents.

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what is the Hysteresis phenomenon?

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the output of a system is dependent not only on its current input, but also on its history of past inputs.

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what is bushfire model?

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The bushfire model is an often used example for demonstrating critical phase transitions in complex systems. The model considers the propagation of a bushfire which critically depends on the density of trees. While loosely dispersed bushes hamper the propagation, densely growing trees can cause exhaustive devastation. The transition from just regional, small fires to large and global fires however does not proceed linearly with increasing density. It proceeds non-linearly with the typical sigmoid form of a rapid phase transition.

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what is Netlogo?

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NetLogo is an agent-based programming language and integrated modeling environment.

NetLogo was designed, in the spirit of the Logo programming language, to be “low threshold and no ceiling”. It teaches programming concepts using agents in the form of turtles, patches, links and the observer.[1] NetLogo was designed for multiple audiences in mind, in particular: teaching children in the education community, and for domain experts without a programming background to model related phenomena.[2] Many scientific articles have been published using NetLogo.[3]
The NetLogo environment enables exploration of emergent phenomena. It comes with an extensive models library including models in a variety of domains, such as economics, biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, system dynamics.[4] NetLogo allows exploration by modifying switches, sliders, choosers, inputs, and other interface elements.[5] Beyond exploration, NetLogo allows authoring of new models and modification of existing models.

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what is behavioural space in Netlogo?

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Netlogo offers an analytical tool, called BehaviorSpace ( > Menu > Tools > BehaviorSpace), for testing a model statistically in several runs.

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what is machine learning?

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Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data.[3] Such algorithms operate by building a model from an example training set of input observations in order to make data-driven predictions or decisions expressed as outputs,[4]:2 rather than following strictly static program instructions.

Within the field of data analytics, machine learning is a method used to devise complex models and algorithms that lend themselves to prediction. These analytical models allow researchers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to “produce reliable, repeatable decisions and results” and uncover “hidden insights” through learning from historical relationships and trends in the data