Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors (Mathematics for Industry Book 28)

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 'Forum "Math-for-Industry" 2016 ' (FMfl2016), held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, on November 21–23, 2016. The theme for this unique and important event was “Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors”, and it brought together leading international mathematicians and active researchers from universities and industry to discuss current challenging topics and to promote interactive collaborations between mathematics and industry. The success of agricultural practice relies fundamentally on its interconnections with and dependence on biology and the environment. Both play essential roles, including the biological adaption to cope with environmental challenges of biotic and abiotic stress and global warming. The book highlights the development of mathematics within this framework that successful agricultural practice depends upon and exploits. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii The Shape of Things to Come—Using Geometric and Morphometric Analyses to Identify Archaeological Starch Grains (Adelle C. F. Coster, Judith H. Field)....Pages 1-6 New Mathematical Models of Antimalarial Drug Action to Improve Drug Dosing Regimens (James M. McCaw, Pengxing Cao, Sophie Zaloumis, Julie A. Simpson)....Pages 7-11 Biodiversity and the Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases (M. G. Roberts, J. A. P. Heesterbeek)....Pages 13-20 Reaction–Diffusion Equations and Cellular Automata (Mikio Murata)....Pages 21-35 Geometry of Timelike Minimal Surfaces and Null Curves (Shintaro Akamine)....Pages 37-46 Accounting for Modelling Errors in Parameter Estimation Problems: The Bayesian Approximation Error Approach (Ruanui Nicholson, Anton Gulley, Jari Kaipio, Jennifer Eccles)....Pages 47-51 Reducing Sludge Formation in the Activated Sludge Process (M. I. Nelson)....Pages 53-60 Incorporating Prior Knowledge in the Calibration of Hydrological Models for Water Resources Forecasting (Julien Lerat)....Pages 61-72 Maintaining Reliable Agriculture Productivity and Goyder’s Line of Reliable Rainfall (Julia Piantadosi, Robert S. Anderssen)....Pages 73-83 Vertex Representation of Convex Hulls for Fast Evaluation of Boundary Constraints in Model-Based Calibration for Automotive Engines (Florin Nae, Hayato Waki)....Pages 85-93 Mathematical Modeling of Rock Pore Geometry and Mineralization: Applications of Persistent Homology and Random Walk (Takeshi Tsuji, Fei Jiang, Anna Suzuki, Tomoyuki Shirai)....Pages 95-109 Statistical Machine Learning for Agriculture and Human Health Care Based on Biomedical Big Data (Yoshihiro Yamanishi, Yasuo Tabei, Masaaki Kotera)....Pages 111-123 Compactly Supported Solutions of Reaction–Diffusion Models of Biological Spread (Maureen P. Edwards, Bronwyn H. Bradshaw-Hajek, María Jesús Munoz-Lopez, Peter M. Waterhouse, Robert S. Anderssen)....Pages 125-138 Two Challenging Difficulties of Protein Complex Prediction (Osamu Maruyama)....Pages 139-145 An Overview of Methods to Identify and Manage Uncertainty for Modelling Problems in the Water–Environment–Agriculture Cross-Sector (A. J. Jakeman, J. D. Jakeman)....Pages 147-171 Back Matter ....Pages 173-174