Socio-technical environments grounded in end-user development (EUD) frameworks and supported by EUD technologies provide fundamental enabling conditions for cultures of participation. This paper argues and provides examples and evidence for the following claims: cultures of participation can cause (1) information overload (by generating substantially more information), (2) participation overloa...

The mobile wireless environment poses challenging problems in designing fault tolerant systems because of the dynamics of mobility and limited bandwidth available on wireless links Traditional fault tolerance schemes therefore cannot be directly applied to these systems Mobile systems are often subject to environ mental conditions which can cause loss of communica tions or data Because of the c...

We develop a coherent framework for integrative simultaneous analysis of the explorationexploitation and model order selection tradeoffs. We improve over our preceding results on the same subject (Seldin et al., 2011) by combining PAC-Bayesian analysis with Bernstein-type inequality for martingales. Such a combination is also of independent interest for studies of multiple simultaneously evolvi...

Describing the nature of the trade-off between inflation and output or unemployment has long been difficult and controversial. The Friedman-Phelps hypothesis, that there is no long-run Phillips curve trade-off between inflation and unemployment, has clearly won over most macro-. economists, but the debate has continued over what, if any, trade-off remains. The subtle notion that an uncertain sh...

In this paper, the error-reject trade-off of linearly combined multiple classifiers is analysed in the framework of the minimum risk theory. Theoretical analysis described in [12,13] is extended for handling reject option and the optimality of the error-reject trade-off is analysed under the assumption of independence among the errors of the individual classifiers. Improvements of the error-rej...

Evolutionary singularities are central to the adaptive dynamics of evolving traits. The evolutionary singularities are strongly affected by the shape of any trade-off functions a model assumes, yet the trade-off functions are often chosen in an ad hoc manner, which may unjustifiably constrain the evolutionary dynamics exhibited by the model. To avoid this problem, critical function analysis has...

Cryptanalytic time memory trade-off is a probabilistic algorithm for inverting a generic one-way function. Since its first introduction by Hellman, many variants and their analysis results have appeared. We present a new estimate for the success probability of the original Hellman trade-off, that is more accurate than the lower bound that is widely being used today.

This paper offers a critique of manufacturing performance measurement approaches investigated by previous studies particularly in trade-off modelling studies for manufacturing capabilities. We argue that some studies complete validity analyses of the trade-off model using measures of manufacturing performance that are inconsistent with the trade-off theoretical concept. The paper also seeks to ...

Energy consumption by computer systems has emerged as an important concern, both at the level of individual devices (limited battery capacity in mobile systems) and at the societal level (the production of Green House Gases). In multicore architectures, applications may be executed on a variable number of cores and these cores may operate at different frequencies. The performance and energy cos...

This paper outlines an approach to natural resource management that incorporates multiple objectives for protected area management within a decision-making framework. Both regulators and other major stakeholders are directly incorporated into the approach to enhance decision-making processes. We call this approach trade-off analysis. The approach uses a framework based on multi-criteria analysi...