Divide and compromise

Digital Divide, Social Divide, Paradigmatic Divide

The digital divide is nothing else than the reflection of the social divide in the digital world. The use of ICT for human development does offer opportunities to reduce the social divide for individual beings or communities; yet there exists a series of obstacles to overcome. The very existence of an infrastructure for connectivity is only the first obstacle, although it often receives an excl...

Abortion and political compromise.

Similarity and Compromise

A common cause of retrieval failure in case-based reasoning (CBR) approaches to product recommendation is that the retrieved cases, usually those that are most similar to the target query, are not sufficiently representative of compromises that the user may be prepared to make. We present a new approach to retrieval in which similarity and compromise play complementary roles, thereby increasing...

Supplier selection using compromise ranking and outranking methods

In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...

Scoring rules and epistemic compromise

Formal models of epistemic compromise have several fundamental applications. Disagreeing agents may construct a compromise of their opinions to guide their collective action, to give a collective opinion to a third party, or to determine how they should update their individual credences. Recent literature on disagreement has focused on certain questions about epistemic compromise: when you find...