Russia: Only Two Alternatives?

Russia: update on animal experiments and alternatives in education.

Progress continues in Russia with growing awareness and implementation of alternatives in education. Further outreach visits and negotiations for replacement have been made by InterNICHE campaigners. Russian language information resources have been complemented by the distribution of translated freeware physiology and pharmacology alternatives; and the InterNICHE Alternatives Loan Systems conti...

Coalitionally strategyproof functions depend only on the most-preferred alternatives

In a framework allowing infinitely many individuals, I prove that coalitionally strategyproof social choice functions satisfy “tops only.” That is, they depend only on which alternative each individual prefers the most, not on which alternative she prefers the second most, the third, . . . , or the least. The functions are defined on the domain of profiles measurable with respect to a Boolean a...

Computing True Alternatives and not only a Single Best Solution

An Evaluation of Two Alternatives to Minimax

In the field of Artificial Intelligence, traditional approaches . to choosing moves In games involve the use of the minimax algo­ rithm. However, recent research results indi­ cate that minimaxing may not always be the best approach. In this paper we summarize the results of some measurements on several model games with several different evaluation functions. These measurements, which are prese...

Two alternatives for disjunction: an inquisitive reconciliation∗

Traditionally, disjunction is taken to express an operator that takes two propositions A and B, and yields their join, A∪B. In more recent work, however, it has been argued that disjunction should rather be treated as generating a set of propositions, {A,B}. Each of the two approaches has certain vantage points that the other one lacks. Thus, it would be desirable to reconcile the two, combinin...