Universal doomsday: analyzing our prospects for survival

Prospects for Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine

The current vaccination strategy against influenza A and B viruses is vulnerable to the unanticipated emergence of epidemic strains that are poorly matched by the vaccine. A vaccine that is less sensitive to the antigenic evolution of the virus would be a major improvement. The general feasibility of this goal is supported by studies in animal models that show that immunologic activities direct...

Doomsday Equilibria for Games on Graphs∗

Two-player games on graphs provide the theoretical framework for many important problems such as reactive synthesis. While the traditional study of two-player zero-sum games has been extended to multi-player games with several notions of equilibria, they are decidable only for perfect-information games, whereas several applications require imperfect-information games. In this paper we propose a...

The Improvement Cycle: Analyzing Our Experience

NASA’s Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), one of the earliest pioneers in the areas of software process improvement and measurement, has had a significant impact on the software business at NASA Goddard. At the heart of the SEL’s improvement program is a belief that software products can be improved by optimizing the software engineering process used to develop them and a long-term improvem...

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We make corrections on the paper by González-D ´ iaz [Phys. Lett. B 586 (2004) 1] where the false illustration of Eq. (10) for the case of β = 0.5 (relevant to Fig. 1 (II) therein is pointed out and illustrated.

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