Abstract Tradeoff Analysis (TOA) is an approach to positive analysis that combines foresight and simulation modeling tools from the relevant disciplines, including economics, in a participatory process designed formulate evaluate forward-looking, strategic decisions under high levels of uncertainty complex systems. We motivate TOA with prototype framework for design evaluation public-good agric...

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Methods for global and local Sensitivity analysis are designed to identify and rank variables importance for each design objective and constraint. This paper investigates the application of local sensitivity analysis to a set of Pareto optimum solutions resulting from the multi-objective minimization of energy use and capital cost, with occupant thermal comfort acting as a constraint. It is con...

In this paper, a theoretical and experimental analysis of the error-reject trade-off achievable by linearly combining the outputs of an ensemble of classifiers is presented. To this aim, the theoretical framework previously developed by Tumer and Ghosh for the analysis of the simple average rule without the reject option has been extended. Analytical results that allow to evaluate the improveme...

in responses to norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (uhc) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by one of the three public health insurance systems. this commentary aims to generate global discussions on how best uhc can be gradually achieve...