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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
138views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Generalized scoring rules and the frequency of coalitional manipulability
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
131views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
216views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Strategic sequential voting in multi-issue domains and multiple-election paradoxes
In many settings, a group of agents must come to a joint decision on multiple issues. In practice, this is often done by voting on the issues in sequence. In this paper, we model ...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer, Jérôme ...
DGO
2011
247views Education» more  DGO 2011»
14 years 6 months ago
Open government and e-government: democratic challenges from a public value perspective
We consider open government (OG) within the context of egovernment and its broader implications for the future of public administration. We argue that the current US Administratio...
Teresa M. Harrison, Santiago Guerrero, G. Brian Bu...