Lucius Q. C. Lamar: Secession and Reunion

Theories of Secession

All theories of the right to secede either understand the right as a remedial right only or also recognize a primary right to secede. By a right in this context is meant a general, not a special, right (one generated through promising, contract, or some special relationship). Remedial Right Only Theories assert that a group has a general right to secede if and only if it has suffered certain in...

Secession of the Center

In world politics the most important events are often rare events. Secession is a rare and important event. Secession of the center; when the dominant region of a country abandons its peripheries, is even rarer. But as the transformation of the Soviet Union into Russia and a collection of independent states demonstrates, it is an important kind of development. In this paper we illustrate the am...

Diverging Tendencies in Multidimensional Secession

We review mean-field and fluctuation-dominated behaviors exhibited by the Seceder Model, which moves an evolving population to various critical states of self-organized segregation, delicately balancing opposed sociological pressures of conformity & dissent, and giving rise to rich ideological condensation phenomena. The secession exponent and finite societal Seceder limits are examined. This p...

Multi-agent Logi Aided Lamar kian Learning

Randward and Lamar: Randomizing the FF Heuristic

We present two planners, Randward and Lamar, which are respectively built upon the Downward and LAMA planners. The technique developed in these planners is to randomize heuristic construction so that heuristic plateaus are less frequent and the bias introduced by poor, arbitrary nondeterministic choices in heuristic construction is removed. Specifically, we randomize the FF heuristic, naming th...