ACRL Nominating Committees 1976/77 Elections

Inefficient committees: small elections with three alternatives

We consider small committees which have to elect one of three alternatives using the simple plurality rule. Committee members have common, state-dependent preferences and receive imprecise private signals about the state of nature prior to the election. We are interested in whether the committee decision is efficient, that is whether the probability with which the committee elects the correct a...

IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Revision of the Nominating and Recall Committees Timeline

RFC 3777 defines the Nominations and Recall Committee’s (NomCom’s) operation, and includes a sample timeline for major steps in the NomCom process that meets the minimum normative requirements for the process. Recent NomComs have been scheduling based on the sample timeline, and the chairs of the last three NomComs -Danny McPherson (2004-2005), Ralph Droms (2005-2006), and Andrew Lange (2006-20...

Mobile Ticket Control System with RFID Cards for Administering Annual Secret Elections of University Committees

RFID technology often is suspected to provide means of undesired surveillance and observation of people in their roles, e.g., as private persons, customers of any business or employees. Here, an opposite scope of application sample shows how such technology based on intelligent smart cards can help improving secrecy in a sensitive environment. The annual election runs for the representatives of...

Expectations and Preferences in Presidential Nominating Campaigns

Message from the TCDE Chair Nominating Committee

The Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) is elected for a two-year period. The mandate of the current Chair, Kyu-Young Whang, is coming to an end and it is time to elect a Chair for the next two years. The TCDE Chair Nominating Committee, consisting of Amr El Abaddi, Paul Larson, and David Lomet, has nominated two candidates for the position as Chair...