Equation 13 · Part 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
Symbol s
What this part means
the wins on.
Its job in the formula
s is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
Agent A and Agent B from the opening example are exactly such a pair: A wins on s , B wins on both c and l , and the Pareto relation is silent about which is “better.
The passage around this formula
Dominance alone will not settle every comparison, because most pairs of agents are not comparable in this weak sense — one is more accurate, the other is cheaper or faster, and neither dominates. Agent A and Agent B from the opening example are exactly such a pair: A wins on s , B wins on both c and l , and the Pareto relation is silent about which is “better.” Something has to break the tie, and that something is necessarily a value judgment about how many dollars, or how many seconds, one point of success is worth to this particular deployment.
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