Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"social choice"”.
-
Characteristics of Fuzzy Social Choice Functions
… considers 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 …
-
The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages
… Collective communication is defined as social interaction mediated through messages whose production involves a collectivity. The focus of analysis is on social choice messages, messages that prescribe or proscribe the behavior of members of that collectivity. The theory developed here …
-
Application of L-Fuzzy Relation to Social Choice Theory
… The majority rule might not always be the best choice for aggregating individual preferences, and individual preferences may be uncertain or partial. For example, someone may prefer a candidate over another, not absolutely, but only up to a certain degree. The objective research of this proposal …
-
Distances on rankings: from social choice to flash memories
From social choice to statistics to coding theory, rankings are found to be a useful vehicle for storing and presenting information in modern data systems. Often, in order to process the information, an appropriately defined distance on rankings is required or at least helpful. For example, in …
-
Modelos matemáticos en social choice : identificación de grupos, inferencia y competencia
… un proceso diferente al habitual en teoría de Social Choice. El procedimiento usual consiste en postular una serie de propiedades que se desean que un proceso de agregación verifique, y encontrar a partir de allí las características de la correspondiente función de elección social y los …
-
The robust beauty of APA presidential elections: an empty-handed hunt for the social choice conundrum
Made available in DSpace on 2012-09-18T21:25:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Popova_Anna.pdf: 345919 bytes, checksum: 4e90065d392f37a025e096b35747b3a8 (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 9ef22f0f93bf70101a60f8379c3dd411 (MD5)
-
Democracy, elections, and rationality: An examination of the implications of social choice theory for the theory and practice of American government
Arrow's Theorem implies that the problem of cyclical majorities 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.
-
Essays on differential information economies
… A mechanism coalitionally implements a social choice set if any outcome of the social choice set can be achieved as a coalitional Bayesian Nash equilibrium of a mechanism and vice versa. We say that a social choice set is coalitionally implementable if there is a mechanism which …
-
Is economic growth desirable? A welfare economic analysis of the Thai experience
… is desirable as it is the best means to increase social welfare and enhancing social welfare is a rational objective of society and governments. Economic growth increases social welfare through improving health outcomes, food intake and access to other basic needs. However, the costs of achieving …
-
CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM
… in transcendental phenomenology as it relates to social philosophy, first in a genetic sense (as developed by Alfred Schutz), but also in a generative context (as developed by Bernhard Waldenfels), provides us with a methodological ground that can instigate a more complex account for the questions …
-
An economic approach to social interactions and institutions
… Such rules ordinarily limit the types of social interaction which can occur. In particular, the vast majority of economic writings consist of an indefinite number of variations on one simple interaction form: exchange. There are many other widely prevalent forms of interaction, however. …
-
Experimental Investigations of Strategic Interactions
… Chapter 3, titled "Preference Aggregation in Social Choice Under Risk", studies decision-makers' willingness to accommodate others' preferences when making "social choices": choices that influence both one's own and others' welfare. I design an experimental task that can answer these questions …
-
The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations
… algorithms, inspired by computational social choice theory and abstract argumentation theory, have recently been proposed. These algorithms seek to provide more representative (i.e. portraying all perspectives) and consistent (i.e. comments within a perspective do not oppose each other) …
-
Preference and affiliation refines the neurotranscriptome pathway for mate preference
Mate choice decisions and behavior contribute to long-term evolutionary outcomes. Understanding the genetic architecture encapsulating mate choice is an important metric in identifying the drivers and variability in those decisions. To address this question, female sailfin mollies (Poecilia …
-
Generalized multi-peaked model of electoral preferences
… preferences correctly. The area of theoretical Social Choice provides us with bearish answers that a consensus may be unobtainable and that any group choice may be impugnable. Even worse, the choice of the best option may depend on the choice of the aggregation procedure. Nevertheless, the …
-
Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness
… resolve several open questions in computational social choice and mechanism design.</p>
-
Equity and efficiency in health and health care for HIV-positive adults in South Africa
… including personal responsibility, need, the social context as well as the impact of allocations of the good on the health of society and the social fabric. The final question -- how should the good be distributed -- examines alternative social choice rules for distributing the good and …
-
Essays in group decision-making
… in production. 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 …
-
Towards a New Algorithm for Event Recommendation System
… our model. These axioms are mostly derived from social choice theory.
-
Computational Aspects of Approval Voting and Declared-Strategy Voting
<p>Computational social choice is a relatively new discipline that explores issues at the intersection of social choice theory and computer science. Designing a protocol for collective decision-making is made difficult by the possibility of manipulation through insincere voting. In approval voting …
Page 1 of 3