Recreating Prometheus

Prometheus Bound ?

The Promethean Dilemma claims to challenge the current wisdom on third-party statebuilding. It contends that contemporary policy-makers and scholars mistakenly identify the early transfer of coercive capacity to local forces as the key to successful state-building. In doing so, they risk not just creating armed forces that may turn against them, but undermining long-term stability in those stat...

Recreating ancestral proteins.

Tracing the history of molecular changes using phylogenetic methods can provide powerful insights into how and why molecules work the way they do. It is now possible to recreate inferred ancestral proteins in the laboratory and study the function of these molecules. This provides a unique opportunity to study the paths and the mechanisms of functional change during molecular evolution. What ins...

Untangling the Prometheus Nightmare

A number of bush and forest fire simulators have been developed in the last two decades based on the deterministic spread equations of Gwynfor Richards (Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 1990) and the marker method for computing discrete approximations to the Richards equations. Unfortunately, all such implementations are plagued by topological complications. For example, sampling issues on the evolving ...

Experiences with Prometheus and the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT)

This document will briefly describe my experiences with the Prometheus methodology, in particular, the use of the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) for the development of a Prometheus design for a Simple Path Planning Agent for a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The overall impression of PDT is that it has facilitated the design process and enabled an iterative approach. This is due to the maintenance...

Recreating Secure Spaces