Mike and I worked together for half a century. To date, I’ve had some twenty-five collaborators—co-authors of joint papers and books; there’s no question that Mike is the premier one. He and I wrote three joint papers—the original Bargaining Set paper (21), the one on the Minimax Principle (38), and the Talmud paper (50)—and one joint book (64), about repeated games of incomplete information. T...

Sowohl bei der Entwicklung konventioneller Software als auch bei der Entwicklung wissensbasierter Systeme fehlen z.Z. systematische Ansätze, Anforderungen an das zu entwickelnde Produkt „ingenieurmäßig“ zu erheben. Die Probleme, mit denen sich der Software Engineer konfrontiert sieht, ähneln denen der Wissensakquisition im Knowledge Engineering. Der an der Universität Karlsruhe am Institut AIFB...

We introduce two families of non-commutative symmetric functions that have analogous properties to the Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald symmetric functions.

![Graphic][1] Mike Land contemplating discoveries after a long day on board the British Research vessel RRS Discovery, 1987, in Atlantic outside West Africa. Michael Francis – known to his colleagues and friends as Mike was born Dartmouth, UK, 12 April 1942 died

This paper describes the architecture and implementation of MIKE a version of the IK distributed persistent object oriented programming platform built on top of the Mach microkernel MIKE s primary goal is to o er a single object oriented programming paradigm for writing distributed applications In MIKE an application programmer can use C almost as he would in a non distributed system The platfo...