MODELING VOTING DYNAMICS IN A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM

Abstention causes bifurcations in two-party voting dynamics

In a recent dynamical systems model of platform adaptation in spatial voting models, Miller and Stadler (J. Econ. Dyn. & Control 1998, in press) showed that, assuming concave voter utility functions and complete participation, there is a globally stable equilibrium located at the mean voter position. Here we show that abstention depending on the distances between voters and platforms may lead t...

Efficient k-Party Voting with Two Choices

We consider the problem of distributed k-party voting with two choices as well as a simple modification of this protocol in complete graphs. In the standard version, we are given a graph in which every node possesses one of k different opinions at the beginning. In each step, every node chooses two neighbors uniformly at random. If the opinions of the two neighbors coincide, then this opinion i...

synthesis of platinum nanostructures in two phase system

چکیده پلاتین، فلزی نجیب، پایدار و گران قیمت با خاصیت کاتالیزوری زیاد است که کاربرد های صنعتی فراوانی دارد. کمپلکس های پلاتین(ii) به عنوان دارو های ضد سرطان شناخته شدند و در شیمی درمانی بیماران سرطانی کاربرد دارند. خاصیت کاتالیزوری و عملکرد گزینشی پلاتین مستقیماً به اندازه و- شکل ماده ی پلاتینی بستگی دارد. بعضی از نانو ذرات فلزی در سطح مشترک مایع- مایع سنتز شده اند، اما نانو ساختار های پلاتین ب...

Adaptive Platform Dynamics in Multi-Party Spatial Voting

Adaptive platform dynamics in multi-party spatial voting

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