We seek to understand the effect of adding disruptive highly-capable new technologies to competitions by assessing the addition of Dynamite to Rock-Paper-Scissors. We find that providing a versatile Dynamite move to only one player provides limited value (win probability increases from 50% to 55.5%) and is played rarely. That value decreases further if the game is expanded beyond just the original three moves. We also observe several mechanisms by which prior moves can become strategically unplayable, or obsolete. We hope that this model illustrates some non-intuitive aspects of developing new versatile technologies. We also hope that it illustrates some pitfalls for developers and integrators to avoid in order to create value rather than merely capability.
Based on the scientific and technological revolutions that have characterised Structural Engineering during the last two centuries, we can acknowledge how the historical scale doubling of suspension bridges has occurred for at least four times, from the beginning of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. T...
Alberto Carpinteri, F. Accornero· Proceedings of the Instituti...· 0 citations
Industrial and systems engineering developed as a transdiscipline by integrating engineering principles and methods with mathematics, physics, and sociology to design, improve, and install integrated systems where people are present. Nevertheless, it has strayed from its transdisciplinary nature due to the necessary sp...
Javier Calvo-amodio, Michael Pennotti, Peter Brook et al.· IISE Annual Conference &...· 0 citations
This paper proposes dynamic equilibrium as an architectural design principle that challenges the conventional reliance on static stability. Drawing on the structural logic of Mobiles and proportional linkage systems, the research investigates how articulated suspension structures can maintain equilibrium through contin...
BRIDGES 2026, the third edition of BRIdging the Divides with Globally Engineered Software that incorporated a Summer School, was held from January 9 to 11, 2026, at Loloata Island Resort near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The school brought together students, local professionals, organizers, international speak...
This paper develops a framework for thinking about mathematical creativity that takes uncertainty as a structural condition of mathematical work, rule-bending as a methodological move that is more pervasive than usually acknowledged, and near-misses, in the sense of Marvin Minsky, as the cognitive unit through which ma...
Bharath Sriraman· Journal of Educational Studi...· 0 citations
