Preventing wars

IC diagnosis: preventing wars and war stories

Firstly, ensure that the right design hooks for diagnosis are available. Mandate full scan in designs that comprise millions of gates. Diagnosis in partial scan or sequential circuits is certainly not a viable option with the limited observability that is available. Ensure that the design is IDDQtestable. Beyond these few design techniques that are primarily design-fortestability techniques, th...

Why Are There So Many Civil Wars in Africa? Understanding and Preventing Violent Conflict

Contrary to popular belief, Africa's civil wars are not due to its ethnic and religious diversity. Using recently developed models of the overall prevalence of civil wars in 161 countries between 1960-1999, we draw lessons with special reference to Africa, showing that the relatively higher prevalence of war in Africa is not due to the ethno-linguistic fragmentation of its countries, but rather...

Clone Wars

Code clones, the result of the ”copy&paste” programming technique, have negative impact on software quality and on the efficiency of the software maintenance process. Although copying may be the fastest way of creating a new feature, after a while it is really hard to detect and maintain the multiple instances of the same code snippets. Based on static source code analysis, clone detectors try ...

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Turf Wars

Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide...