Towards an axiomatic approach to truth discovery

Towards an axiomatic approach to hierarchical clustering of measures

We propose some axioms for hierarchical clustering of probability measures and investigate their ramifications. The basic idea is to let the user stipulate the clusters for some elementary measures. This is done without the need of any notion of metric, similarity or dissimilarity. Our main results then show that for each suitable choice of user-defined clustering on elementary measures we obta...

Towards Convergence to a Rational Expectations Equilibrium: An Axiomatic Approach∗

An Axiomatic Approach to Routing

Information delivery in a network of agents is a key issue for large, complex systems that need to do so in a predictable, efficient manner. The delivery of information in such multi-agent systems is typically implemented through routing protocols that determine how information flows through the network. Different routing protocols exist each with its own benefits, but it is generally unclear w...

An axiomatic approach to diversity

The topic of diversity is an interesting subject, both as a purely mathematical concept and also for its applications to important real-life situations. Unfortunately, although the meaning of diversity seems intuitively clear, no precise mathematical definition exists. In this paper, we adopt an axiomatic approach to the problem, and attempt to produce a satisfactory measure.

An axiomatic approach to TACTIC

Most outranking methods build a preference relation between alternatives evaluated on several attributes using the concordance / non-discordance principle. This principle leads to declaring that an alternative is “superior” to another, if the coalition of attributes supporting this proposition is “sufficiently important” (concordance condition) and if there is no attribute that “strongly reject...