Statue Wars

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 ...

Cell wars.

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...

Automated Modeling of the Great Buddha Statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

In the great valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimen-tary rock of the region around the second to fourth centu-ries AD. The larger statue was 53 meters high while the smaller Buddha measured 35 m. The two colossal statues were demolished in March 2001 by the Taleban, using mortars, dynamite and rockets. After the destruction, a consortium w...

Slice wars vs dose wars in multiple-row detector CT.

he short answer is yes. At this oint in time, it seems that the soalled slice wars with regard to the umber of slices provided per comuted tomographic (CT) gantry roation may be reaching a plateau. At he same time, increasing concerns bout radiation dose due to CT exminations are fueling the efforts to educe radiation dose and leading o the beginning of the so-called ose wars. Since 1998, there...