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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Preference aggregation"”.
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Multi-criteria Preference Aggregation Framework for Sustainable Energy Planning
… the actors involved, with their interests and preferences. The lack of homogeneity in all the factors that must be consider makes it necessary to design a process that guides the analysis process of any type of decision-maker. Decision analysis methods have been developed to aid decision-makers …
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Democracy, elections, and rationality: An examination of the implications of social choice theory for the theory and practice of American government
… is endemic any non-dictatorial system of preference aggregation that meets certain minimal conditions of fairness. The present study attempts to access the significance of this result to the theory and practice of democratic government.
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Collective belief models for representing consensus and divergence in communities of Bayesian decision-makers
Bayesian belief aggregation is the process of forming a consensus model from the probabilistic beliefs of multiple individuals. Preference aggregation attempts to find an optimal solution for a population considering each individual's beliefs, desires and objectives. Belief and preference …
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Experimental Investigations of Strategic Interactions
… by others' actions (Chapters 1 and 2) and preferences (Chapter 3). Chapter 1, titled "Paternalistic Persuasion", studies whether paternalistic experts ("Advisors'') can make decision-makers ("Choosers'') better off by persuading them to change their behaviour. In a setting where Choosers …