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There are more strategy-proof procedures than you think

With as few as eight individuals and five alternatives, there are 561, 304, 372, 286, 875, 579, 077, 983 strategy-proof social choice rules. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, now almost 30 years old, has become a staple of microeconomic theory, social choice theory, and mechanism design (Gibbard, 1973; Satterthwaite, 1975). Everyone understands that th...

There Is More to Methodology than Method

There is much more to evaluation than collecting, analyzing, and interpreting scientific data in order to compare the outcomes of vious treatments. For the past 40 years, method-related discussions in the field of program evaluation have evolved to include models and reflections on the complex and multiple roles associated with the practice of evaluation. In fact, for Shadish, Cook, & Leviton, ...

There is more to context than location

Context is a key issue in interaction between human and computer, describing the surrounding facts that add meaning. In mobile computing research published the parameter location is most often used to approximate context and to implement context-aware applications. We propose that ultra-mobile computing, characterized by devices that are operational and operated while on the move (e.g. PDAs, mo...

There is More than a Power Law in Zipf

The largest cities, the most frequently used words, the income of the richest countries, and the most wealthy billionaires, can be all described in terms of Zipf's Law, a rank-size rule capturing the relation between the frequency of a set of objects or events and their size. It is assumed to be one of many manifestations of an underlying power law like Pareto's or Benford's, but contrary to po...

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