The Dilemma

The Dilemma of Physician Shortage and International Recruitment in Canada

The perception of physician shortage in Canada is widespread. Absolute shortages and relative discrepancies, both specialty-wise and in urban-rural distribution, have been a daunting policy challenge. International Medical Graduates (IMGs) have been at the core of mitigating this problem, especially as long as shortage of physicians in rural areas is concerned. Considering such recruitment as h...

The Trader’s Dilemma: A Continuous Version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a non-zero-sum discrete two-player game. It is often used to study social phenomena like cooperation. In this paper we describe and analyze a continuous version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, which we call the Trader’s Dilemma. The continuous version can provide further insights in the phenomenon of cooperation because it allows new types of strategies. In the 1998 revisio...

The Table Maker's Dilemma the Table Maker's Dilemma

The Table Maker's Dilemma is the problem of always getting correctly rounded results when computing the elementary functions. After a brief presentation of this problem, we present new developments that have helped us to solve this problem for the double-precision exponential function in a small domain. These new results show that this problem can be solved, at least for the double-precision fo...

on the dilemma of moraliti:self-interest and altruism

The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma?

Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the Soviet-US nuclear arms race has been an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. According to such a model, on any given trial both superpowers are better off arming regardless of what the other side chooses, but if both sides arm the outcome is less desirable than had both sides reduced their supply of weapons. Although Soviet and US preferences r...