This section presents a case study that illustrates the applicability of the modeling methods and tool framework in practice.
Thus, it is not likely that the dynamic features discovered are artifacts of the modeling methods.
Further details of the modeling methods can be found in the Supplementary Appendix.
However we will provide some standard guidelines to follow in the context of the modeling methods that will help obtain significant performance improvements, without needing any sophisticated programming.
French and others [ 17] provide an overview of the modeling methods and tool design in the supplementary material of the 2011 paper; details of the system and its operation are available on the system website [ 18].
We showed that (i) the performance and individual architecture of the two species varies with the modeling method, (ii) the effect of the modeling method on the model outputs depends on the species and on the assemblage considered.
Thus, the capability of the modeling method is verified.
The results showed the utility of the modeling method in explaining the spatial pattern of urban growth.
Püthe et al. speculate that this might be an artifact of the modeling method used by Love and Swidinsky.
A simple network with a ring topology in Fig. 5 is considered the example to illustrate the application of the modeling method in Section II.
However, in practice, the nonlinear functions are often completely unknown for the constraints of the modeling method or unknown dynamic disturbances.
