The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of European Union developed to a high degree complexity from one modifying treaty another, until latest definition stipulated in Treaty Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when not even institutions, as actors, can avoid collective irr...

Abstract Emergent behavior in repeated collective decisions of minimally intelligent agents—who at each step time invoke majority rule to choose between a status quo and random challenge—can manifest through the long-term stationary probability distributions Markov chain. We use this known technique compare two kinds voting agendas: zero-intelligence agenda that chooses challenger uniformly fro...

The COVID-19 disease has spread all over the world, representing an intriguing challenge for humanity as a whole. efficient diagnosis of humans infected by still remains increasing need worldwide. chest X-ray imagery represents, among others, one attractive means to detect cases efficiently. Many studies have reported efficiency using deep learning classifiers in diagnosing from images. They co...

We evaluate critically some of the properties of theMajority Judgment voting procedure recently proposed by Balinski and Laraki (2007a, 2007b) for the election of one out of two or more candidates. The Majority Judgment Voting Procedure: A Critical Evaluation