Simon Wicks singles in the "real world". Actor Nick Berry released a ballad entitled "Every Loser Wins" in October 1986, having previously sung the song in character on-screen (accompanied by a piano). The song was written and produced by Simon May, who famously composed the "EastEnders" theme tune. "Every Loser Wins" was a smash hit, reaching number 1 in the UK singles chart, where it stayed for three weeks, knocking Madonna's "True Blue" off the top spot. It was the second biggest-selling single in the UK that year after "Don't Leave Me This Way" by The Communards, and held the record as
Single-parameter utility have different valuations for each outcome. In general, each agent can assign a different and unrelated value to every outcome in formula_1. In the special case of single-parameter utility, each agent formula_4 has a publicly-known outcome subset formula_5 which are the "winning outcomes" for agent formula_4 (e.g., in a single-item auction, formula_7 contains the outcome in which agent formula_4 wins the item). For every agent, there is a number formula_9 which represents the "winning-value" of formula_4. The agent's valuation of the outcomes in formula_1 can take one of two values: The vector of the winning-values of all agents is denoted