Suppose you ran a chess tournament, everybody played everybody, and you wanted to use the results to rank everybody. Unless you were really lucky, the results would not be acyclic...
Arrow’s impossibility theorem [1] shows that the set of acyclic tournaments is not closed to non dictatorial Boolean aggregation. In this paper we extend the notion of aggregati...
We examine a class of wagering mechanisms designed to elicit truthful predictions from a group of people without requiring any outside subsidy. We propose a number of desirable pr...
Nicolas S. Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortma...
We investigate some differences between the general intramolecular model for gene assembly and its restricted simple model. Although both models satisfactorily sort all current ex...
A new statistical model for DNA considers a sequence to be a mixture of regions with little structure and regions that are approximate repeats of other subsequences, i.e. instance...
Lloyd Allison, Linda Stern, Timothy Edgoose, Trevo...