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Robustness Among Multiwinner Voting Rules [PDF]
Artificial Intelligence, 2017 We investigate how robust the results of committee elections are to small changes in the input preference orders, depending on the voting rules used. We find that for typical rules the effect of making a single swap of adjacent candidates in a single preference order is either that (1) at most one committee member might be replaced, or (2) it is ...
Robert Bredereck +5 more
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Games, 2021 Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as they decide between multiple candidates by a given social choice method.
Alexander Mayer, Stefan Napel
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Classification of Few Labeled Images Based on Integrated GMM Clustering
Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2019 In order to improve the classifier classification accuracy of by using convolutional neural network training, a large amount of labeled data is often required, but sometimes labeled data is not easily obtained.This paper proposes a solution based on the ...
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Consensus of travel direction is achieved by simple copying, not voting, in free-ranging goats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 For group-living animals to remain cohesive they must agree on where to travel. Theoretical models predict shared group decisions should be favoured, and a number of empirical examples support this.
D. W. E. Sankey +7 more
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The method of voting in the British Parliament – between tradition and functionality. [PDF]
Przegląd Europejski, 2019 The paper is devoted to the method of voting, which is typical for the British Parliament. This method is referred to as “division”, because both Members of Parliament (MPs) and Lords are literally divided into two groups – supporters and opponents of ...
Łukasz Danel
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Condorcet's Principle and the Preference Reversal Paradox [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017 We prove that every Condorcet-consistent voting rule can be manipulated by a voter who completely reverses their preference ranking, assuming that there are at least 4 alternatives. This corrects an error and improves a result of [Sanver, M. R.
Dominik Peters
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Voters’ Rationality Under Four Electoral Rules: A Simulation Based on the 2010 Colombian Presidential Elections [PDF]
Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2011 In this work we analyze the impact of the voting rule on individual behavior. We use a sample of individuals naturally motivated by real candidates. Then, in our methodology we do not induce preferences.
Julián Parada
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The concept and main patterns of compulsory voting
Конституційно-правові академічні студії, 2023 Elections are one of the main institutions of good governance. The correct and relevant functioning of the mentioned institution determines the quality of democracy, the legal self-awareness of society and the index of political-economic development of ...
Jikia Mariam, Sophio Demetrashvili
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Eliciting Fairness in N-Player Network Games through Degree-Based Role Assignment
Complexity, 2021 From social contracts to climate agreements, individuals engage in groups that must collectively reach decisions with varying levels of equality and fairness.
Andreia Sofia Teixeira +3 more
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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]
, 2005 Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing
Hillinger, Claude
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