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Conscious in a Vegetative State?: A Critique of the PVS Concept

Peter McCullagh

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Ethics; Pathology

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978-1-4020-2629-4

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978-1-4020-2630-0

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Springer Nature

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Reino Unido

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© Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

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Positive Management or an Exercise in Futility?

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 193-216

Thirst

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 217-232

Withdrawal of Hydration and Nutrition from Patients in Vegetative States

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 233-260

Some Economic Considerations

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 261-281

Vegetative States in Court

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 282-314

Continuing Unresponsiveness in the Future

Peter McCullagh

This last chapter of the book is concerned with subexponential fixed-parameter tractability, that is, with the class . Subexponential fixed-parameter tractability is intimately linked with the theory of exact (exponential) algorithms for hard problems, which is concerned with algorithms for NP-hard problems that are better than the trivial exhaustive search algorithms, though still exponential. For example, there has been a long sequence of papers on exact algorithms for the 3-satisfiability problem; the currently best (randomized) algorithm for this problem has a running time of time for instances with n variables. There are numerous further examples of very nice nontrivial algorithms for hard problems, but a systematic complexity theory is still in its infancy. A question that has turned out to be central for such a theory is whether the 3-satisfiability problem can be solved in time .

Pp. 315-324