Nominating Committee

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...

Expectations and Preferences in Presidential Nominating Campaigns

Editorial Committee:

Experimental Approaches to Vote-counting Theory in Nominating Choice

Professor William H. Riker's essay on "Voting and the Summation of Preferences" (this REVIEW, Vol. 55, December 1961, pp. 900-11) is a most useful contribution. It needs to be supplemented by some comment on the applicability of this material in the field of nominating choice; also on the applicability of experimental approaches to ascertain the frequency with which the problems that concern Ri...

Follow the Bouncing Ball: Presidential Nominating Conventions and Campaign Dynamics