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Category Archives: Mathematical

A More Aggressive Look At the Overhead of Private Property

13 February, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Rediscovering IBISWorld’s Industry Research Reports, I went through and redid my analysis on the overhead of private property in the United States; I have generalized the scope somewhat to be […]

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Examples, Mathematical, Progress: A Fair Treatment

Graph Theory Economics

2 March, 2014by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Graph Theory Economics Here is an article I wrote for the VIAAC wiki on the use of graph theory in VIAAC theory and natural economics.

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory

Priority levels defined more rigorously

3 October, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

As I’ve covered before, a computational economy uses preemption and priority levels for its allocation schemes.  Priority levels are used to determine, when demand exceeds constraints, which demands to fulfill […]

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory

Little Allocation for an M/M/c queue

23 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

In queuing theory, an M/M/c queue is one where arrivals (λ) happen by a Markov (Poisson) process, average time spent in the queue (μ) is also a Markov/Poisson process, and […]

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Examples, Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory

Example: Comparison of transparent conductive materials.

13 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

This is going to be a short article, based on this table I’ve created: Comparison of transparent electrodes. This presents a way of comparing materials by their properties directly, using […]

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Examples, Mathematical

Functional processes

6 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

A functional process is something that maps a set of inputs to a set of outputs.  This can include production processes, which turn inputs into different outputs, construction processes, which […]

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory

Specializations Revisited

1 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

The networking of intentional communities, once established, would allow a specialization scheme for greater efficiency and robustness of the network.  Due to the four-color theorem we know that 4 or […]

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Dialectic, Mathematical, Progress: A Fair Treatment, VIAAC Theory, Visions of the future

Fundamentals, Continued

1 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

If you’ve been following, you may have noticed that though I defined three basic parameters, S, E, and D, I only used two of them.  If it wasn’t clear before, […]

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory

Fundamentals of Natural Economics

31 August, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

If you are unfamiliar with the basics of calculus, you can get a brief lesson here. Scarcity and Abundance The way we currently (at least supposedly) deal with scarcity is […]

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory

Decision-making in realtime

25 August, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

How do we make effective decisions quickly enough to keep up with a large number of simultaneous problems in the same system?  Decisions are not always single actions, they are […]

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Mathematical, Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory

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