College Tutor and Revolutionary Colonel

Colonel D. F. Keegan

Discrete Colonel Blotto and General Lotto games

A class of integer-valued allocation games—“General Lotto games”—is introduced and solved. The results are then applied to analyze the classical discrete “Colonel Blotto games”; in particular, optimal strategies are obtained for all symmetric Colonel Blotto games.

Colonel Kenneth MacLeod

MacLeod, i.m.s. (retired), on the 17th December 1922, at the age of 82 years will have been received in Calcutta by his many friends with much regret, as it means the breaking of another of the few remaining links with the oldtime days when the Service which he so much adorned was in its pristine glory and usefulness. Kenneth MacLeod was born in North Uist in 1840: he took his M. A., Edin., in ...

Generalized Colonel Blotto Game

Competitive resource allocation between adversarial decision makers arises in a wide spectrum of realworld applications such as in communication systems, cyberphysical systems security, as well as financial, political, and electoral competition. As such, developing analytical tools to model and analyze competitive resource allocation is crucial for devising optimal allocation strategies and ant...

Revolutionary Science

On rare occasions in the history of science, remarkable discoveries transform human society and forever alter mankind's view of the world. Examples of such discoveries include the heliocentric theory, Newtonian physics, the germ theory of disease, quantum theory, plate tectonics and the discovery that DNA carries genetic information. The science philosopher Thomas Kuhn famously described scienc...