Uwe Timm’in Morenga romanında Machiavelli izleri

Opponent Modeling in Machiavelli

Opponent modeling is a technique in computer game-playing which attempts to create a model of an opponent’s strategy. This model can then be used to predict the opponent’s future actions. This paper attempts to apply opponent modeling to the commercial card game Machiavelli, a game containing imperfect information. Neural networks are used to build the models. These neural networks are trained ...

Machiavelli and the liberalism of fear

This article revisits the long-standing question of the relations between ethics and politics in Machiavelli's work, assessing its relevance to the 'liberalism of fear' in particular in the work of Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and also John Dunn. The article considers ways in which Machiavelli has been a 'negative' resource for liberalism - for instance, as a presumed proponent of tyranny; b...

Uwe Dulleck Paul Frijters

Old elites can block changes, but not all do. Why is it that stronger elites may allow more changes than weaker elites? Why do economies with larger stocks of natural resources not grow faster than economies poorer in natural resources? We argue that old elites hold some power to extract rents from the economy. Whereas old sectors (i.e. agriculture or extraction of natural resources) are not af...

Dolev-Yao is no better than Machiavelli

A Metamodel for UWE

The Web Engineering field is rich in design methods, such as OOHDM, OO-H, UWE, W2000, WebML or WSDM (Baresi et al., 2002; Koch and Kraus, 2002; Schwabe and Pastor, 2001) supporting the complex task of designing Web applications. These methodologies propose the construction of different views (i.e. models) which comprises at least a conceptual model, a navigation and a presentation model althoug...