Clan Donald

CLAN: Closely reLated ApplicatioNs

Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Knowing similarity between applications plays an important role in improving understanding and assessing reusability of these applications, rapid prototyping, and discovering code theft and plagiarism. However, detecting similar applications is a notoriously diffi...

And Donald

In 1983, Popper and Miller published in Nature a new argument against inductive probability. There followed, the next year, a discussion of the validity of the argument in the pages of the same journal involving Good, Jeffrey, and Levi as well as Popper and Miller themselves. This has led in turn to still further discussions of the argument. Those who are critical include Redhead (1985) and Dun...

Convex Games versus clan Games

In this paper we provide characterizations of convex games and total clan games by using properties of their corresponding marginal games. We show that a “dualize and restrict”procedure transforms total clan games with zero worth for the clan into monotonic convex games. Furthermore, each monotonic convex game generates a total clan game with zero worth for the clan by a “dualize and extend” pr...

VIA over the CLAN Network

The Virtual Interface Architecture is an industry standard for high performance networking in system-area networks, and the same model is proposed for Infiniband. Existing implementations suffer from high complexity, and scaling to higher bandwidths and large numbers of endpoints is likely to be problematic. We present a novel implementation of VIA that consists of a thin software layer over th...

Donald Monro (1727–1802)