Philosophers of criminal punishment widely agree that should be “proportional” to the “seriousness” offense. But this apparent consensus is only superficial, masking significant dissensus below surface. Proposed proportionality principles differ on several distinct dimensions, including: (1) regarding which offense or offender properties determine and thus constitute a relatum; (2) whether obje...

Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study the fair allocation of indivisible resources using well-established framework differential privacy. present algorithms for approximate envy-freeness proportionality when instances considered to be adjacent if they differ only on utility a single agent item. On other hand, we...

In the present paper, a novel criterion for fatigue life assessment of engineering components under multiaxial low-cycle regime is proposed. The criterion, named Refined Equivalent Deformation (RED) allows to take into account, when load non-proportional, strength decrease experimentally observed those metals sensitive non-proportionality. applied two different (304 stainless steel and 6061 alu...

Energy accounts for a significant fraction of the operational costs of a data center and data center owners are increasingly interested in moving towards power proportional designs. However, we show that current power proportional solutions are inherently limited in the energy savings they can offer; the reason is that they focus on managing the data center IT equipment (disks, servers) and neg...

In the articles [1] and [3], standard tools and techniques of calculus are used to establish a variety of proportionality results concerning areas defined by the lines tangent to a cubic curve, and by the lengths of certain arcs of a parabola, where the arcs themselves are determined by an area-proportionality criterion. We demonstrate here that these results can be viewed as consequences of so...

The concept of proportionality has been central to the retributive revival in penal theory, and underlies desert theory's normative and practical commitment to limiting punishment. Theories of punishment combining desert-based and consequentialist considerations also appeal to proportionality as a limiting condition. In this paper we argue that these claims are founded on an exaggerated idea of...

Our increasing reliance on the cloud has led to the emergence of scale-out workloads. These scale-out workloads are latency-sensitive as they are user driven. In order to meet strict latency constraints, they require massive computing infrastructure, which consume significant amount of energy and contribute to operational costs. This cost is further aggravated by the lack of energy proportional...