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111Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies — is a paper on energy economics by Joseph Tainter from 1996. Contents 1 Focus 1.1 Attempts 1.2 Requirement of knowledge 2 See …
112Is-ought problem — In meta ethics, the is ought problem was raised by David Hume (Scottish philosopher and historian, 1711 ndash;1776), who noted that many writers make claims about what ought to be on the basis of statements about what is . However, there seems to …
113Ramsey problem — The Ramsey problem or Ramsey Boiteux pricing, is a policy rule concerning what price a monopolist should set, in order to maximize social welfare, subject to a constraint on profit. A closely related problem arises in relation to optimal taxation …
114Secretary problem — The secretary problem is an optimal stopping problem that has been studied extensively in the fields of applied probability, statistics, and decision theory. It is also known as the marriage problem, the sultan s dowry problem, the fussy suitor… …
115Job-shop problem — The job shop problem (JSP) is a problem in discrete or combinatorial optimization, and is a generalization of the famous travelling salesman problem. It is a prominent illustration of a class of problems in computational complexity theory which… …
116Three Prisoners problem — The Three Prisoners Problem appeared in Martin Gardner s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American in 1959 [Gardner, Martin (1959a). Mathematical Games column, Scientific American , October 1959, pp. 180–182.] [Gardner, Martin (1959b).… …
117Semipredicate problem — In computer programming, a semipredicate problem occurs when a subroutine intended to return a useful value can fail, but the signalling of failure uses an otherwise valid return value. The problem is that the caller of the subroutine cannot tell …
118Crossed Ladders Problem — The Crossed Ladders Problem is a puzzle of unknown origin that has appeared in various publications and regularly reappears in Web pages and Usenet discussions. The Problem: Two ladders of respective length a = 40 and b = 30 feet lie oppositely… …
119Alma Problem — The Alma Problem is an issue of concern to musicologists, historians and biographers who deal with the lives and works of Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma.Alma Mahler (ultimately Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel) was not only an articulate, well… …
120Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech in Balatonőszöd in May 2006 — Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány gave a May 2006 closed meeting speech in Balatonőszöd to the MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) members of the National Assembly of Hungary. This meeting was supposed to be confidential but the Prime… …
