This paper suggests an indicator of power in weighted majority games. An indicator of power determines the ability of a voter to influence the outcomes of the voting bodies he belongs to. In a weighted majority game each voter is assigned a certain nonnegative real number weight and there is a positive real number quota satisfying a boundedness condition such that a group of voters can pass a r...

Voting algorithms are used to arbitrate between the results of variants in fault-tolerant systems. Industrial sectors which employ such systems include process control, transportation (such as railway and avionics), nuclear power plants, and military applications. Typical voters used in fault tolerant systems are majority, plurality, median, and weighted average. These voters can produce either...

In the post-Moore era, nanomagnetic logic circuits have shown great potential to replace complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits. A majority gate, as core of a circuit, is equivalent inverter in CMOS circuit. gate generally has four nanomagnets arranged “T” shape. The on three corners (<i>I</i><sub>1</sub>, <i>I</i><sub>2</sub>, &l...

Non-linear voter models assume that the opinion of an agent depends on the opinions of its neighbors in a non-linear manner. This allows for voting rules different from majority voting. While the linear voter model is known to reach consensus, non-linear voter models can result in the coexistence of opposite opinions. Our aim is to derive approximations to correctly predict the time dependent d...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

We introduce a model to study the effects of social influences in opinion dynamics. In particular, we analyze the voter model, from a socio psychological perspective, by considering the role of conformity. Conformity is a central issue in social psychology as it represents one of people’s behaviors that emerge as result of their interactions. We introduce a voter model where agents, linked in a...