WEVOTE: Weighted Voting Taxonomic Identification Method of Microbial Sequences

WEVOTE: Weighted Voting Taxonomic Identification Method of Microbial Sequences

BACKGROUND Metagenome shotgun sequencing presents opportunities to identify organisms that may prevent or promote disease. The analysis of sample diversity is achieved by taxonomic identification of metagenomic reads followed by generating an abundance profile. Numerous tools have been developed based on different design principles. Tools achieving high precision can lack sensitivity in some ap...

CNG Method with Weighted Voting

CNG Method for Authorship Attribution. The Common N-Grams (CNG) classification method for authorship attribution (AATT) was described in [2]. The method is based on extracting the most frequent byte n-grams of size n from the training data. The n-grams are sorted by their normalized frequency, and the first L most-frequent n-grams define an author profile. Given a test document, the test profil...

Mathematics of Voting – Weighted Voting Systems

Weighted Approval Voting

To allow society to treat unequal alternatives distinctly we propose a natural extension of Approval Voting [7] by relaxing the assumption of neutrality. According to this extension, every alternative receives ex-ante a non-negative and finite weight. These weights may differ across alternatives. Given the voting decisions of every individual (individuals are allowed to vote for, or approve of,...

Dynamic weighted voting games

We initiate the study of dynamic cooperative games—cooperative games where the characteristic function may change over time. We introduce two types of algorithmic problems for such games: computing a given solution concept at time t, and checking that a certain function of the game (e.g., the Shapley value of a given player or the value of the least core) remains within given bounds during time...