Publications (5)
Statistical Impact of New York Health Legislation
William Long, Joe Zhou, Zhirui Hu +1
As the US Government plays an increasing role in health care, it becomes essential to understand the impact of expensive legislation on actual outcomes. New York, having spent the…
Analyzing Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem
Thomas Lively, William Long, Artidoro Pagnoni
The Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem (MSP) is an NP-Complete problem with significant applications in computer and operations systems. We provide a survey of the wide array of pol…
Escaping the State of Nature: A Hobbesian Approach to Cooperation in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
William Long
Cooperation is a phenomenon that has been widely studied across many different disciplines. In the field of computer science, the modularity and robustness of multi-agent systems o…
Casimir Torque in Inhomogeneous Dielectric Plates
William Long, Lucas Schuermann
In this work, we consider a torque caused by the well known quantum mechanical Casimir effect arising from quantized field fluctuations between plates with inhomogeneous, sharply d…
Casimir torque in weak coupling
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, William Long
In this paper, dedicated to Johan Høye on the occasion of his 70th birthday, we examine manifestations of Casimir torque in the weak-coupling approximation, which allows exact cal…