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performing actions for social utility. With social utility, he means the well-being of many people. Mill's explanation of the concept of utility in his work, Utilitarianism...

In welfare economics and social choice theory, a social welfare function—also called a social ordering, ranking, utility, or choice function—is a function...

the same value of utility. Individual utility and social utility can be construed as the value of a utility function and a social welfare function respectively...

sharing. The neutral results, avoiding special utility issues, restricted the social analyzes to structural utility issues. This restriction did not exclude...

Social utility efficiency (SUE) is a measurement of the utilitarian performance of voting methods—how likely they are to elect the candidate who best represents...

Social media as a public utility is a theory postulating that social networking sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat...

people's strategic decision-making behavior is shaped by social preferences, social utility and other psychological factors. Behavioral game theory analyzes...

utility describes the change in utility (pleasure or satisfaction resulting from the consumption) of one unit of a good or service. Marginal utility can...

A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service...

aggregate social behaviour. The expected utility hypothesis states an agent chooses between risky prospects by comparing expected utility values (i.e...

relationships. With that, many of these subjects include some form of social utility that is beneficial to the subject field itself. The whole field is rarely...

In economics, a cardinal utility expresses not only which of two outcomes is preferred, but also the intensity of preferences, i.e. how much better or...

published research in 2017 in which they argue the method has high social utility efficiency. The quadratic cost function has the unique property that...

interpersonal utility comparison is possible or not significantly alters the available mathematical structures for social welfare functions and social choice...

utility pole is a column or post, usually made out of wood or aluminum alloy, used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities...

In video game AI, a utility system, or utility AI, is a simple but effective way to model behaviors for non-player characters. Using numbers, formulas...

A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to...

of social utility, and are therefore of more paramount obligation, than any others; though particular cases may occur in which some other social duty...

January 26, 2009. James Hutson (March 16, 2001). "James Madison and the Social Utility of Religion: Risks vs. Rewards". Library of Congress. Retrieved May...

Utility ratemaking is the formal regulatory process in the United States by which public utilities set the prices (more commonly known as "rates") they...