Avoiding chaos in Wonderland

Avoiding Chaos in Wonderland

Wonderland, a compact, integrated economic, demographic and environmental model is investigated using methods developed for studying critical phenomena. Simulation results show the parameter space separates into two phases, one of which contains the property of long term, sustainable development. By employing information contain in the phase diagram, an optimal strategy involving pollution taxe...

Avoiding quantum chaos in quantum computation.

We study a one-dimensional chain of nuclear 1/2 spins in an external time-dependent magnetic field, considered as a possible candidate for experimental realization of quantum computation. According to the general theory of interacting particles, one of the most dangerous effects is quantum chaos that can destroy the stability of quantum operations. The standard viewpoint is that the threshold f...

Avoiding and Managing Chaos in Projects

Construction projects are often very complex and dynamic by their nature, and it is a well-known fact that such systems exist on the edge of chaos. The paper’s objective is to study construction projects poised on the edge of chaos and to explore the forces that may turn projects chaotic in the sense that the project crosses this dangerous edge. The prime aim is to understand how the phase tran...

The PPACA in wonderland.

Counterfactuals in wonderland

In a well-known, controversial paper, Professor Robert J. Aumann (1995) gave a formal presentation and a proof of the claim, that in games with perfect information, common knowledge of rationality implies that the backward induction outcome is reached. What keeps the players in Aumann’s model from deviating from the backward induction path is the following. Each player knows that if he deviates...