TRANSFORMING THE DILEMMA

Transforming the dilemma.

How does natural selection lead to cooperation between competing individuals? The Prisoner's Dilemma captures the essence of this problem. Two players can either cooperate or defect. The payoff for mutual cooperation, R, is greater than the payoff for mutual defection, P. But a defector versus a cooperator receives the highest payoff, T, where as the cooperator obtains the lowest payoff, S. Hen...

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