Reconciliations are most often inferred on the basis of a parsimony criterion: a cost is given to each event type, the total cost of a reconciliation is the sum of the costs of the individual events it uses, and a reconciliation of minimum total cost is sought for.
That reconciliation rather sums up Flower's year, which has not been defined by the decisions he got right so much as it has the manner in which he responded to the ones he got wrong.
The cost of a reconciliation is then the sum of the costs of the individual events it induces.
For now, both Hamas and Fatah seem content to reap the short term benefits of a reconciliation agreement, but settling on the final nitty-gritty details is an unavoidable zero-sum game.
Inside, two signposts summed up how much of a setback the reconciliation between the communities here has suffered.
The score of a reconciliation under this model is the weighted sum of the number of duplications, losses, and transfers : (1) where δ, λ and τ, respectively, are the costs of duplication, loss and transfer.
Reconciliation is a hard sell in the zero-sum game of Thai politics.
If one word can sum up his career it is magnanimity - greatness in combat and also greatness in tolerance and reconciliation.
The reconciliation of process measurements, subject to linear constraints, has usually involved finding the minimum weighted sum of squares of adjustments to the measurements.
Unfortunately, unless the NDC can bring about national reconciliation, various factions in the country will continue to perceive the Syrian crisis as a zero sum game.
Reconciliation includes forgiving.
