Still, we believe that a Noisy-OR assumption is often a safer approach: claiming that there exists absolutely no chance that a resource may be impacted given all, but one, dependencies are impacted, is a harsh assumption.
First, the controller guarantees that all the closed-loop signals are globally uniformly ultimately bounded, which differs from most existing adaptive fuzzy control approaches where the semi-global boundedness of the closed-loop signals is ensured under a harsh assumption on the approximation domain of the fuzzy logic system.
As federal regulators estimate potential losses at banks, the harshest assumptions they are testing entails the unemployment rate topping out at 10.3percentthe thighestest level since 1983, but hardly the worst case.
Paulson's story also casts a harsh light on the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies.
Most businesspeople are not this calculating, of course, but the assumption of harsh rationality is a useful way to work out how to deter rule-breakers.In an influential 1968 paper* on the economics of crime, Gary Becker of the University of Chicago set out a framework in which criminals weigh up the expected costs and benefits of breaking the law.
It could be argued that this assumptions is too harsh.
But despite the problems facing music startups, Caldwell doesn't think the people running the music industry are evil or stupid (which is an easy assumption to make given how harsh some of their terms seem to be).
Many of the challenges associated with TS are directly or indirectly related to social attitudes and practices, from harsh teasing in school to health professionals' assumption that a woman will abort a fetus diagnosed with Turner.
He also had a crusade to wage: against the death penalty, against harsh and inflexible sentencing practices, and against the assumption that his prisoners were irredeemable.
However, according to the description above, the assumption is not always satisfied in a harsh scenario.
