The model attempts to optimise the spatial configuration of a set of derived toposequences iteratively by using simulated annealing to maximise the total sum of distances between each toposequence hilltop in the set.
As you travel inland, the scrubby vegetation and olive groves gradually give way to wooded hills and fertile valleys with occasional hilltop villages, each with its own character.
Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to withdraw most of their troops in a few days from territory each claims at a hilltop temple, Cambodian officials say.
The answer to three-year-old Hannah Clayton's questions is that her family – mother Chrissie, 37, father Andrew, 36, and baby brother Theo, six months – are this year's stars of an extraordinary "live" Nativity play that takes place each December on a hilltop in a rural corner of Surrey.
Alberobello is just one of Valle d'Itria's string of città bianche or white towns, each on their own little hilltop rising up from the plain and each staring out defiantly at the rest, as if the days of petty fiefdoms were still with us.
Then they marched around the hilltop, and with each pass they reached into their banana leaves, took handfuls of mashed food and flung it at the villagers, re-enacting the long-ago war.
As the teenagers who knew the victims wept and hugged each other at the windy hilltop on Friday, their peers, strangers to those who died, also took to the roller-coaster topography of the hill, careening past the memorial, on bicycles and skateboards.
An 18th-century villa in the hilltop village of Vibonati, each of its six bedrooms (they range from singles to triples) is en-suite and comes with decent views, many of the sea.
And last year, John and Agnes' four grown children were each given a portion of the hilltop as well -- a subdivision of the land that leaves the Cropsey ruins carefully untouched.
