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Selling a vote
2005
Abstract A voting function is a rule that determines the outcome of an election: taking the voters' votes as input, a voting function selects the winning candidate from the set of candidates receiving some vote. A voting function is immune to vote selling when, given that neither voter i nor voter j votes for the winning candidate, a change ceteris paribus in i's vote cannot make the candidate for which j votes the winner. It is shown that voting functions immune to vote selling have either a dictator (a voter who always determines the winning candidate) or a dictated candidate (a candidate who becomes the winner by just receiving some vote).
Collaborative Activities and Methods
2016
Having described the context for collaborative activities (in Chap. 1), and reviewed the basic aspects of computer supported decision-making activities (in Chap. 2), we will present in this section several specific methods used in collaborative decision making. The methods and techniques presented in the chapter are independent of the information technologies upon they are instantiated.
Thomas Paine's influence on the Girondin constitutional project of 1793
2018
This article aims to investigate what may have been Thomas Paine's influence on the Girondin constitutional project presented by Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet to the French Nation...
On Solving the Problem of Identifying Unreliable Sensors Without a Knowledge of the Ground Truth: The Case of Stochastic Environments.
2017
The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution to an extremely pertinent problem, namely, that of identifying unreliable sensors (in a domain of reliable and unreliable ones) without any knowledge of the ground truth. This fascinating paradox can be formulated in simple terms as trying to identify stochastic liars without any additional information about the truth. Though apparently impossible, we will show that it is feasible to solve the problem, a claim that is counterintuitive in and of itself. One aspect of our contribution is to show how redundancy can be introduced, and how it can be effectively utilized in resolving this paradox. Legacy work and the reported literature (for exam…
La Fin de la pauvreté ? Un débat historique
2007
International audience; Dans les années 1790, pour la première fois, des réformateurs proposent de mettre fin à la pauvreté. Inspirés par le progrès scientifique, par les promesses d'une activité économique qui s'internationalise et par les révolutions qui ont eu lieu en France et aux Etats-Unis, certains penseurs politiques comme Paine ou Condorcet assurent que tous les citoyens pourraient être protégés contre les hasards et les incertitudes de l'existence.
Antecedentes, consecuencias y paradojas del Brexit
2018
En el referéndum celebrado en junio del 2016, los votantes británicos optaron por abandonar la Unión Europea. Este artículo revisa las consecuencias económicas y los antecedentes del Brexit. La evidencia que arrojan los estudios realizados hasta la fecha sugiere unos efectos negativos del Brexit. El diseño de la votación, el descontento con la crisis y los efectos de la globalización ayudan a explicar la paradoja según la cual los votantes optaron por una opción en contra de sus propios intereses económicos. La modulación de estos efectos dependerá del acuerdo final que se negocie entre la UE y el Reino Unido. Sin embargo, existen dos cuestiones abiertas en relación con el Brexit. En primer…