The First-Come First-Served (FCFS) scheduling policy is the most popular algorithm used in practice. Furthermore, its usage theoretically validated: for light-tailed job size distributions, FCFS has weakly optimal asymptotic tail of response time. But what if we don't just care about tail? What also 99th percentile time, or fraction jobs that complete under one second? Is still best? Outside re...

Is it possible to interfere with individual decision-making while preserving freedom of choice? The purpose of this article is to assess whether ‘libertarian paternalism’, a set of political and ethical principles derived from the observations of behavioural sciences, can form the basis of a viable framework for the ethical analysis of public health interventions. First, the article situates li...

The notion of nudge effects was investigated in two field experiments which focused on influencing customers’ purchases by manipulating the location and availability of food in a University canteen setting. Study 1 manipulated the location of fruit and confectionary. Study 2 restricted the types of bread (i.e. brown only not white) that customers could choose for their sandwiches. The results o...

Background: Behavioural public policies, known as nudges, suffer from lack of citizen consent and involvement, which has led to an argument for more reflective ‘nudge plus’. Aims objectives: How can reflection be introduced in a way that is not itself top-down paternalist spite good intentions? might these pluses’ develop on the ground? Methods: This paper reports mixed-methods case study. Find...

 Choosing between management or leadership approaches for a specific issue or decision.  Making sense of an array of decisions (or agenda for a group).  Communicating with others why a particular approach is appropriate.  When innovations and creative alternatives are needed, this matrix can be used to deliberately try to increase the uncertainty and disagreement to nudge the system to the ...

Eran Toch Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel [email protected] Abstract This short paper discusses the legitimacy of paternalistic privacy approaches that aim to nudge users to more privacy-oriented behavior in networks. I demonstrate that traditional theories for privacy, rooted in individualistic values, fail to justify paternalistic views. In response, I suggest tying networked priv...