While some games have inherent optimal strategies, strategies that will win no matter how the opponent plays, perhaps more interesting are those that do not possess an objective best strategy. In this paper, we examine three such games: the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, Incan Gold, and Dominion. Through computer simulations, we attempted to develop strategies for each game that could win most of...

DESIGN OF A VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR AUTOMATION CONTROL Zelin Zhu Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Yuzhong Shen In the past, only students who studied on campus were able to access laboratory equipment in traditional lab courses; distance learning students, enrolled in online courses, were at a disadvantage for they could learn basic lab experiment principles but could never experience han...

CONSTRUCTION OF EFFECTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC CURRENTS FOR TWO BODY QUASIPOTENTIAL EQUATIONS Dmitri Krioukov Old Dominion University Director Dr J W Van Orden A systematic algebraic approach for the construction of e ective electro magnetic currents consistent with relativistic two body quasipotential equa tions is presented This approach generalizes the Mandelstam formalism and applies it to a gen...

To whom do sperm and ova belong? Few tissues are produced by the human body with more waste than the germ cells. Yet dominion over the germ cells, and over the early embryo that results from their union in vitro, is behind much of the emotion that modern reproductive intervention can engender. The germ cells differ from other human tissues that can be donated or transplanted because they carry ...