The alliance maker

The Maker Fables

This Science Fiction Prototype explores the idea that the current interest in maker space activities could continue to grow to the point where it causes a sea change in the manufacturing industry as it shifts from centralised production in factories, to a distributed production in people’s communities or homes. This move is a natural extension of a number of research trends, such as the increas...

The adaptive decision maker

Melody Maker The Music

In this paper we describe how we have developed an application that is capable of evolving melodies with some human help to guide it. We have developed this system using evolutionary algorithms and interactive evolution. The user can use the application to, first, evolve short blocks of notes, and second, to combine these blocks into longer melodies using more evolutionary techniques. The resul...

Alliance Formation, Alliance Expansion, and the Core

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

Pattern Maker

w was created in the tradition of typesetting printed pages for bound volumes. For hundreds of years, printers considered the page as a block of type surrounded by margins. As adequate margins were required for binding, practical considerations became aesthetic needs applied by strict formulas. Earlier concepts of pages, such as certain Egyptian hieroglyphs, Roman scrolls. and medieval illumina...