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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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ISBN impreso
978-1-4020-2629-4
ISBN electrónico
978-1-4020-2630-0
Editor responsable
Springer Nature
País de edición
Reino Unido
Fecha de publicación
2005
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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