1. The Strength of Uniqueness At an intuitive level, one immediate attraction of Permissivism is this: Uniqueness is an extremely strong thesis. We can think of Uniqueness as one possible answer to the following question: How much slack exists between the evidence and what it’s reasonable to believe given the evidence? In these terms, the friend of Uniqueness thinks that there is never any slac...

Nowadays, energy savings have become one of the most critical issues. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient approach to scheduling periodic real-time tasks in the multicore context. Within a voltage/frequency domain (VFD), a simple static voltage/frequency scaling schedule (SimpleVS) is first introduced to select the utilization of the heaviest-loaded core as the shared operating freque...

The separation of ownership and control in corporations opens up the potential for moral hazard. Thus it is conventional wisdom that managers who are not closely monitored pursue personal goals rather then maximize shareholder wealth. Yet little is known about what these goals are, despite the importance of understanding manager behavior when designing corporate governance rules. This paper pro...

We study the problem of computing low-distortion embeddings in the streaming model. We present streaming algorithms that, given an n-point metric space M , compute an embedding of M into an n-point metric space M ′ that preserves a (1−σ)-fraction of the distances with small distortion (σ is called the slack). Our algorithms use space polylogarithmic in n and the spread of the metric. Within suc...

This paper proposes an alternative data envelopment analysis for assessing the operational performance of 46 international tourist hotels (ITHs) in Taiwan over the period 1997-2002. This study is the first research that combines the discriminant power of a slack-based measure and the dynamic view of window analysis in applying DEA. It is shown that the trend of mean managerial efficiency is inc...

In this paper, a Network DEA approach to assess the efficiency of NBA teams is proposed and compared with a black-box (i.e. single-process) DEA approach. Both approaches use a Slack-Based Measure of efficiency (SBM) to evaluate the potential reduction of inputs consumed (team budget) and outputs produced (games won by the team). The study considers the distribution of the budget between first-t...

This project work aims to develop a dynamic slack management technique, for real-time distributed embedded systems to reduce the total energy consumption in addition to timing, precedence and resource constraints. The Slack Distribution Technique proposed considers a modified Feedback Control Scheduling (FCS) algorithm. This algorithm schedules dependent tasks effectively with precedence and re...

One of the most important factors challenging the survival of organizations in this competitive environment is innovation performance that is under control of organizational slack. The present research aims at showing that organizational slack has an optimal amount and because of its U-shaped format in its relationship with innovation performance, investment more or less than this optimal point...

In this chapter we focus on slack reclamation and propose a new slack reclamation technique, Multiple Frequency Selection DVFS (MFS-DVFS). The key idea is to execute each task with a linear combination of more than one frequency such that this combination results in using the lowest energy by covering the whole slack time of the task. We have tested our algorithm with both random and real-world...