Analysis paralysis or paralysis of analysis is an anti-pattern, the state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. A decision can be treated as over-complicated, with too many detailed options, so that a choice is never made, rather than try something and change if a major problem arises. A person might be seeking the optimal or "perfect" solution upfront, and fear making any decision which could lead to erroneous results, when on the way to a better solution.
The phrase describes a situation where the...
So the dual problem of max-flow is min-cut. What's the dual problem of stable matching?
In Hromkovič's Algorithmics for Hard Problems (2nd edition) there is this theorem (2.3.3.3, page 117):
There is a (decidable) decision problem $P$ such that for every algorithm $A$ that solves $P$ there is another algorithm $A'$ that also solves $P$ and additionally fulfills
$\qquad \forall...
In complexity theory, a time-constructible function is a function f from natural numbers to natural numbers with the property that f(n) can be constructed from n by a Turing machine in the time of order f(n). The purpose of such a definition is to exclude functions that do not provide an upper bound on the runtime of some Turing machine.
Time-constructible definitions
There are two different definitions of a time-constructible function. In the first definition, a function f is called time-constructible if there exists a positive integer n0 and Turing machine M which, given a string 1n cons...
