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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The attack of the backstories (and why they won't win)
This essay adopts a formal model of play as semiosis [18] to explore the often dysfunctional role of backstories within computer game design and play. Within this model, backstori...
David Myers
ACSAC
2001
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Why Information Security is Hard-An Economic Perspective
According to one common view, information security comes down to technical measures. Given better access control policy models, formal proofs of cryptographic protocols, approved ...
Ross J. Anderson
WSC
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Why We Don't Know How To Simulate the Internet
Simulating how the global Internet data network behaves is an immensely challenging undertaking because of the network’s great heterogeneity and rapid change. The heterogeneity ...
Vern Paxson, Sally Floyd
IJIS
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Optimal choice of granularity in commonsense estimation: Why half-orders of magnitude?
It has been observed that when people make crude estimates, they feel comfortable choosing between alternatives which differ by a half-order of magnitude (e.g., were there 100, 30...
Jerry R. Hobbs, Vladik Kreinovich
FMCO
2009
Springer
161views Formal Methods» more  FMCO 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
The How and Why of Interactive Markov Chains
This paper reviews the model of interactive Markov chains (IMCs, for short), an extension of labelled transition systems with exponentially delayed transitions. We show that IMCs a...
Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen