Hiebeler's Papers

Academic Papers

Key: author worked on project as: ^u=undergraduate student; ^g=graduate student

David E. Hiebeler, "A Brief Overview of Cellular Automata Simulation Packages," in Physica D vol. 45, 1990. Note, this issue of the journal was also published as the book Cellular Automata: Theory and Experiment, edited by Howard Gutowitz. The software review I wrote is pretty out of date by now, but everything else in the proceedings is still very good.
D.E.H. and Robert C. Tatar, "Cellular Automata and Discrete Physics", published as chapter 12 of the book Introduction to Nonlinear Physics, edited by Lui Lam (Springer-Verlag, 1997). I wrote this when I was an undergrad; it took them 7 years to publish the book!
D.E.H., "Implications of Creation ," a paper asking "if we are successful at creating artificial life, then what do we need to worry about?". In Idealistic Studies, vol. 23 no. 1, Winter 1993 (special issue on philosophy and computers).
D.E.H., "The Swarm Simulation System and Individual-Based Models", presented at Decision Support 2001: Advanced Technology for Natural Resource Management, and published in volume 1 of the proceedings (ISBN: 1-57083-021-5 or 1-57083-023-1). This paper talks about the original Swarm prototype and about individual-based modeling in ecology and other fields. Here is a link to more up-to-date information on Swarm.
D.E.H., "Stochastic Spatial Models: From Simulations to Mean Field and Local Structure Approximations" (abstract), Journal of Theoretical Biology 187, pp 307--319 (1997). I also presented a version of this work, with the title "Understanding and predicting stochastic spatial models using local structure theory" (abstract), at the annual conference of the Ecological Society of America, August 12, 1996 in Providence, RI.
D.E.H., "Spatially Structured Discrete Population Models," (abstract), published in Advanced Topics in Biomathematics: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Biology, edited by Lansun Chen, Shigui Ruan, and Jun Zhu (World Scientific, 1998). I spoke on a related topic at the conference, which was held at Zhejiang Agricultural University in Hangzhou, China, May 1997.
D.E.H., "Populations on Fragmented Landscapes with Spatially Structured Heterogeneities: Landscape Generation and Local Dispersal," Ecology 81(6), pp 1629--1641 (2000) (abstract). Note: the small versions of a few of the figures don't look very good, so here are larger versions of those three figures. And the C program for generating the heterogeneous landscapes is available: 2x1gen.c.
D.E.H., "Competition Between Near and Far Dispersers in Spatially Structured Habitats," Theoretical Population Biology 66(3), 205--218 (2004).
D.E.H., "Spatially Correlated Disturbances in a Locally Dispersing Population Model," Journal of Theoretical Biology 232(1), 143--149 (2005). I've also written a Java applet implementing this spatial population ecology model.
D.E.H., "A Cellular Automaton SIS Epidemiological Model with Spatially Clustered Recoveries," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3515, 360--367 (2005). Also presented at the workshop on Modelling of Complex Systems by Cellular Automata, at the International Conference on Computational Science, Atlanta GA, May 2005.
D.E.H., "Dynamics and Resistance to Neighborhood Perturbations of Discrete- and Continuous-Time Cellular Automata," Journal of Cellular Automata, 1(2), 125--139 (2006).
D.E.H., "Moment Equations and Dynamics of a Household SIS Epidemiological Model," Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 68(6), 1315--1333 (2006).
D.E.H. and Amanda K. Criner^u, "Partially Mixed Household Epidemiological Model with Clustered Resistant Individuals," Physical Review E, 75, 022901 (2007).
D.E.H., "Competing Populations on Fragmented Landscapes with Spatially Structured Heterogeneities: Improved Landscape Generation and Mixed Dispersal Strategies," Journal of Mathematical Biology, 54, 337--356 (2007).
D.E.H. and Benjamin R. Morin^g, ``The Effect of Static and Dynamic Spatially Structured Disturbances on a Locally Dispersing Population,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 246(1), 136--144 (2007).
D.E.H., ``Transient Dynamics and Quasistationary Equilibria of Continuous-time Linear Stochastic Cellular Automata Voter Models with Multiscale Neighborhoods,'' Advances in Complex Systems, 10 (suppl. no. 1), 145--165 (2007).
D.E.H. and Nicholas E. Millett^u, ``Pair and Triplet Approximation of a Spatial Lattice Population Model with Multiscale Dispersal Using Markov Chains for Estimating Spatial Autocorrelation,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 279(1), 74--82 (2011).
D.E.H., Isaac J. Michaud^u,g, Hamilton Hoxie Ackerman^u, Shannon Reed Iosevich^u, and Andre Robinson^u, ``Multigeneration Reproduction Ratios and the Effects of Clustered Unvaccinated Individuals on Epidemic Outbreak,'' Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 73(12), 3047--3070 (2011).
D.E.H. and Isaac J. Michaud^u,g, ``Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Spatially Correlated Disturbances,'' Ecological Modelling, 240, 64--73 (2012).
Carlos Hernandez-Suarez and D.E.H., ``Modeling Species Dispersal with Occupancy Urn Models,'' Theoretical Ecology, 5(4), 555--565 (2012).
D.E.H., Isaac J. Michaud^g, Ben A. Wasserman^u, and Timothy D. Buchak^u, ``Habitat Association in Populations on Landscapes with Continuous-valued Heterogeneous Habitat Quality,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 317, 47--54 (2013).
Jinbao Liao, Zhenqing Li, D.E.H., Yoh Iwasa, Jan Bogaert, and Ivan Nijs, ``Species Persistence in Landscapes with Spatial Variation in Habitat Quality: A Pair Approximation Model,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 335, 22--30 (2013).
Jinbao Liao, Zhenqing Li, D.E.H., Magdy El-Bana, Gaby Deckmyn, and Ivan Nijs, ``Modelling Plant Population Size and Extinction Thresholds from Habitat Loss and Habitat Fragmentation: Effects of Neighbouring Competition and Dispersal Strategy,'' Ecological Modelling, 268, 9--17 (2013).
D.E.H., Rachel M. Rier^g, Josh Audibert^u, Phillip J. LeClair^h, and Anna Webber^h, ``Variability in a Community-Structured SIS Epidemiological Model,'' Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 77(4), 698--712 (2015). DOI 10.1007/s11538-014-0017-9.
Jinbao Liao, Zhixia Ying, DEH, Yeqiao Wang, Takenori Takada, and Ivan Nijs, ``Species Extinction Thresholds in the Face of Spatially Correlated Periodic Disturbance,'' Scientific Reports, 5, 15455 (2015). DOI 10.1038/srep15455.
Emily Silver Huff, Jessica E. Leahy, D.E.H., Aaron R. Weiskittel, and Caroline L. Noblet, ``An Agent-Based Model of Private Woodland Owner Management Behavior Using Social Interactions, Information Flow, and Peer-To-Peer Networks,'' PLoS ONE, 10(11), e0142453 (2015). DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0142453.
D.E.H., Jennifer Houle^u, Frank Drummond, Peter Bilodeau^u, and Jeffery Merckens^u, ``Locally Dispersing Populations in Heterogeneous Dynamic Landscapes with Spatiotemporal Correlations. I. Block Disturbance,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 407, 212--224 (2016). DOI 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.031.
D.E.H. and Jack L. Hill^g, ``Locally Dispersing Populations in Heterogeneous Dynamic Landscapes with Spatiotemporal Correlations. II. Habitat Driven by Voter Dynamics,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 407, 81--89 (2016). DOI 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.033.
Jennifer D. McCabe^g, Brian J. Olsen, and D.E.H., ``Wind Patterns as a Potential Driver in the Evolution and Maintenance of a North American Migratory Suture Zone,'' Evolution, 70(9), 2145--2154 (2016). DOI 10.1111/evo.13007.
Jinbao Liao, Jiehong Chen, Zhixia Ying, D.E.H., and Ivan Nijs, ``An Extended Patch-Dynamic Framework for Food Chains in Fragmented Landscapes,'' Scientific Reports, 6, 33100 (2016). DOI 10.1038/srep33100.
D.E.H., Andrew Audibert^h, Emma Strubell^u, and Isaac J. Michaud^g, ``An Epidemiological Model of Internet Worms with Hierarchical Dispersal and Spatial Clustering of Hosts,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 418, 8--15 (2017). DOI 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.01.035.

Academic-related things

MATLAB/R Reference, unpublished reference document available on-line.

Non-academic stuff

Two children's stories which I published in a magazine in China.
Monkey Bumpkin, a biweekly column I wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun in 1999-2000.
D.E. Hiebeler, `` Career Automata,'' Science's Next Wave, Feb. 6, 2004. Invited autobiographical article about the path leading to my research career.
D.E. Hiebeler, "A Foreigner's Confusion: Why Do So Many People Want to Sell Me Things?" (nonfiction, in Chinese with translation assistance from Yanlin Ding). Published in Shanghai Online, Oct. 17, 2005.
D.E. Hiebeler, ``A Foreign Bigfoot Searches for Shoes,'' (nonfiction, in Chinese with translation assistance from Yanlin Ding), in Xin1 Min2 Wan3 Bao4 (Xinmin Evening News), Shanghai, China, Oct. 29, 2005.
D.E. Hiebeler, ``Measure Maine's Coast,'' Letter to the Editor published in the Bangor Daily News, Friday June 2, 2006. Letter regarding fractal geometry.