This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We introduce a flexible spatial point process model for spatial point patterns exhibiting linear structures, without incorporating a latent ...

Hawkes processes represent a class of self-exciting point processes wherein each event increases the likelihood of subsequent events occurring over a short period. Initially developed by Alan Hawkes ...

A cascading failure is a failure in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of a part can trigger the failure of successive parts. Although an initial and introductory approach for ...

Process engineers and integrators can use virtual process modeling to test alternative process schemes and architectures without relying on wafer-based testing. One important aspect of building an ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) is famous for its elaborate ritual architecture: more than 300 monumental platforms (ahu) and nearly 1,000 monumental, multi-ton anthropomorphic statues (moai). To date ...