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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Choice function"”.
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Sequential Decision Making For Choice Functions On Gambles
Choice functions on gambles (uncertain rewards) provide a framework for studying diverse preference and uncertainty models. For single decisions, applying a choice function is straightforward. In sequential problems, where the subject has multiple decision points, it is less easy. One possibility, …
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Choice Functions, Digraphs, and Balanced Allocations
… this thesis, we consider broadly the concept of choice in a variety of settings, focusing on equity in selection. In particular, we introduce the concept of (pair-wise) domination graphs for hypergraphs endowed with a choice function on edges, and are interested, for instance, in minimal numbers …
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Characteristics of Fuzzy Social Choice Functions
… the strategic manipulation of fuzzy social choice functions where both individuals and groups can choose alternatives to various degrees. Past efforts to model fuzzy social choice and strategic manipulation have allowed individual preferences to be fuzzy but still required groups to select …
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Choice functions, dynamics, and equal representation
… study dynamics of systems evolving according to choice functions; such scenarios have the potential of being applicable in data and network processing, decision theory, and sampling. In particular, consider n linearly ordered size-one "spots" and k classes from which to fill the spots (where …
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Hyperfinite transversal theory
… sets X and Y. A matching f of $\Gamma$ is a 1-1 function f which is a subset of $\Gamma$ and which has the same domain as $\Gamma$.) The graph $\Gamma$ can be thought of as a finite family of finite sets $\{\Gamma(x) : {x}{\in}{X})\}$. Thus, the existence of a matching of $\Gamma$ is equivalent …
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Independence and conservativity results for intuitionistic set theory
… repudiates a weak form of countable choice, ACN2, asserting that every countable family of inhabited subsets of {0,1} has a choice function. The second part will be concerned with Constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory and other intuitionistic set theories augmented by various …
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An architecture study of a Byzantine-resilient processor using authentication
… messages and then using a full-set majority vote choice() function to calculate the group consensus value. Finally, the proposed synchronization protocol needed to provide synchronized virtual clocks on all nonfaulty processors is placed on top of a full message exchange (FME) known as a From_all …
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Decomposing questions
… is represented as an existential quantifier over choice function variables. This, in conjunction with the proposed syntax, allows us to derive the semantics both of questions and of indefinites containing wh-words. More complex issues arise when considering questions with multiple wh-words and …
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… operators (Kishimoto (2005)) or choice function variables (cf. Hagstrom (1998); Cable (2010); Slade (2011)). This thesis presents new data pertaining to the distribution and interpretation of disjunctions and indefinites formed with the two particles in contexts of negation, …
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The semantics of Russian indefinite pronouns : scope, domain widening, specificity, and proportionality and their interaction
… As such, they can be analyzed as unambiguously choice-functional proportional indefinites. Indefinites with the suffix -to are usually analyzed as scopally (but not epistemically) specific. The conclusion that they can only take a wide scope often leads to analyzing them as choice-functional …
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Essays in group decision-making
… The second essay is in stochastic social choice theory. In a paper published in 1986 in Econometrica, Pattanaik and Peleg formulated stochastic analogues for each of Arrow's axioms and concluded that the stochastic social choice functions that satisfy their axioms are essentially randon …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… manufacture is human behaviour, technological choice, function, style and social identity. Changes in scale or type of ceramic manufacture must be evaluated in terms of the sociopolitical, cultural and technological context in which they took place. These shifts in pottery production occurred …
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Choice with Indexed Alternatives: a Theoretical and Experimental Analysis
… various violations of the axioms of classical choice theory, but only recently has axiomatic theory started to take into account this empirical evidence. In particular, the recent evidence collected by the new approach of neuroeconomics and the rapid growth of new teorie have triggered a …