A trade-off (or tradeoff) is a situational decision that involves diminishing or losing on quality, quantity, or property of a set or design in return...

In health economics, time trade-off (TTO) is a technique used to measure the quality of life that a person or group is experiencing. An individual will...

The trade-off dilemma, or patient trade-off, refers to the choice between the expected beneficial and harmful effects in terms of patient survival and...

The trade-off theory of capital structure is the idea that a company chooses how much debt finance and how much equity finance to use by balancing the...

The efficiency–thoroughness trade-off principle (or ETTO principle) is the principle that there is a trade-off between efficiency or effectiveness on one...

A space–time trade-off, also known as time–memory trade-off or the algorithmic space-time continuum in computer science is a case where an algorithm or...

In ecology, the competition–colonization trade-off is a stabilizing mechanism that has been proposed to explain species diversity in some biological systems...

partitioning, there is another trade-off between latency and consistency. PACELC means, if partition (P) happens, the trade-off is between availability (A)...

systems in common use today arguably do. The CAP theorem is based on three trade-offs, one of which is "atomic consistency" (shortened to "consistency" for...

nodes A-D work the same as before. The CAP theorem is based on three trade-offs: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Partition tolerance...