Freedom as non-domination: radicalisation or retreat?

Reduce-or-Retreat Methods in Optimization

We develop a very broad framework of reduce-or-retreat methods for numerical optimization, by identifying the essential components of the many optimization methods that fit this category. We show that a subsequence of the iterates generated by reduce-or-retreat methods approaches stationarity in the sense of having diminishing gradients (or more generally, subgradients). Much of the paper is de...

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-domination based Random Elitist and Non- uniform Domination Strategy

MOEA/D multi-objective optimization algorithm features the shortcoming of losing partial of the excellent individuals when it updates sub-problems and its inefficiency of convergence speed. In order to overcome such shortcoming, we propose a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm based on adaptive epsilon-domination and random elitist strategy in this paper. This algorithm uses arc...

Autonomic Computing: Freedom or Threat?

No longer is the question whether autonomic computing will gain general acceptance but when. Experts like Alva Couch expect autonomic computing to be widely used within 10 years [1]. When it does become mainstream, how will autonomics change system administration and corporations, and will the change be for better or worse? The answer depends on how well we anticipate the limitations of what au...

Freedom as Morality

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