A Territorial Conflict: Trade-offs and Strategies

Trade-offs

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Evaluation of trade-offs between workflow escalation strategies

Workflows in the service industry are subject to exceptional circumstances that affect the ability to complete work in a timely manner. For instance, workflows may need to deal with sudden spikes in customer demand due to a variety of events such as promotional deals, product launches, major news, or natural disasters. Escalation strategies can be incorporated into the design of a workflow so t...

A one-model approach for Computation of congestion With productions trade-offs and weight restrictions

Hormesis and trade-offs: a comment.

Single or multiple exposures to mild stress at younger ages often have positive health beneficial effects throughout life, indicating that rescue systems turned on at a young age can be effective even in old age (e.g. Le Bourg 2011). This seems to be at variance with the notion of the so-called trade-offs that due to a limitation of resources it is impossible for an organism to increase all asp...

Trade-offs, Transitivity, and Temkin †

The last few years have seen a number of new and important publications in moral theory. Arguably none more important than Larry S. Temkin’s Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. This fascinating work highlights and explores in depth a seemingly fundamental inconsistency in our own axiological beliefs. Put roughly, the inconsistency arises given our general wi...