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Crowdsourcing for Participatory Democracies: Efficient Elicitation of Social Choice Functions [PDF]
, 2014 We present theoretical and empirical results demonstrating the usefulness of voting rules for participatory democracies. We first give algorithms which efficiently elicit \epsilon-approximations to two prominent voting rules: the Borda rule and the ...
Aitamurto, Tanja +3 more
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Dueling Bandits with Qualitative Feedback
, 2018 We formulate and study a novel multi-armed bandit problem called the qualitative dueling bandit (QDB) problem, where an agent observes not numeric but qualitative feedback by pulling each arm.
Honda, Junya +2 more
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SECURITY AND PRIVACY, Volume 7, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract This systematic literature review examines the implementation and analysis of zk‐SNARK, zk‐STARK, and bulletproof non‐interactive zero‐knowledge proof (NIZKP) protocols in privacy‐preserving applications across diverse sectors. Examining 41 research works obtained through the systematic search queries and filtering criteria published from 2015
Bjorn Oude Roelink +2 more
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Possible Winners in Noisy Elections [PDF]
, 2014 We consider the problem of predicting winners in elections, for the case where we are given complete knowledge about all possible candidates, all possible voters (together with their preferences), but where it is uncertain either which candidates exactly
Faliszewski, Piotr +3 more
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Social justice in fractured times
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2024.Abstract The article provides a historical overview of the evolution of social justice, a concept the development of which is interwoven with liberal ideology and practices. The inception of liberalism and its various historical levels are examined, explicating the way social justice arose as a significant social value and shifted as liberal thought ...
Erin Thrift, Jeff Sugarman
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A "winner" under any voting rule ? An experiment on the single transferable vote [PDF]
In this paper, we expose the results of a voting experiment realised in 2007, during the French Presidential election. This experiment aimed at confronting the Single Transferable vote (SVT) procedure to two criteria : simplicity and the selection of a ...
Etienne Farvaque +2 more
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A natural adaptive process for collective decision‐making
Theoretical Economics, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 667-703, May 2024.Consider an urn filled with balls, each labeled with one of several possible collective decisions. Now let a random voter draw two balls from the urn and pick her more preferred as the collective decision. Relabel the losing ball with the collective decision, put both balls back into the urn, and repeat.
Florian Brandl, Felix Brandt
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Are Condorcet and minimax voting systems the best?
, 2020 For decades, the minimax voting system was well known to experts on voting systems, but was not widely considered to be one of the best systems. But in recent years, two important experts, Nicolaus Tideman and Andrew Myers, have both recognized minimax ...
Darlington, Richard B.
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Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 2024.we propose to re‐examine the place of spontaneous or natural microbial consortia for safe future food and feed biotech developments. Microbiomes can already adequately be managed, and provide high‐quality food and feed commodities through emerging microbial biotech, but symbiotic fermentation is currently overlooked compared to axenic production.
Ugo Javourez +3 more
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Voter Sovereignty and Election Outcomes [PDF]
APPROVAL VOTING; ELECTIONS; CONDORCET WINNER/LOSER; NASH EQUILIBRIUM.
Brams, S.J., Sanver, R.M.
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