Proportionality

Privacy and Proportionality

Equality and Proportionality

Contemporary moral egalitarians hold that all people have equal moral standing and that we deserve this standing in virtue of satisfying some descriptive criterion. These two claims appear to be in tension, however, as none of the proposed criteria are attributes that all people possess equally. Many egalitarians have hoped to eliminate this tension by holding that the descriptive criterion of ...

Practical Data Center Power Proportionality

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...

Affine Transformations, Polynomials, and Proportionality

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...

Proportionality in Modern Asymmetrical Wars