This paper explores the social and political imperatives in the sphere of public policy relating to social justice. In India, the colonial legacy and post-colonial social and political pressures sustained the appropriation of ‘caste’ category in allocating public resources to the backward class of citizens. For several reasons, ‘economic’ category could not be placed in allocating resources. Th...

This note reexamines the single-profile approach to social-choice theory. If an alternative is interpreted as a social state of affairs or a history of the world, it can be argued that a multi-profile approach is inappropriate because the information profile is determined by the set of alternatives. However, single-profile approaches are criticized because of the limitations they impose on the ...

In this paper, we give an alternative proof of the necessary and sufficient condition for achieving optimal checkpoint garbage collection in distributed systems [9]. We show that, by formulating the recovery line calculation problem as a reachability analysis problem on a rollback-dependency graph, the proof can be greatly simplified. We also present a polynomial-time optimal garbage collection...