Usually a voting rule requires agents to give their preferences as linear orders. However, in some cases it is impractical for an agent to give a linear order over all the alternatives. It has been suggested to let agents submit partial orders instead. Then, given a voting rule, a profile of partial orders, and an alternative (candidate) c, two important questions arise: first, is it still poss...

ii 5.2 Periodogram with Rectangular window…………………………………….26 6. SIMULATION RESULTS AND ANALYSIS……………….………………………………………….27 6.1 WINNER phase II model…………………………………………………………….27 6.2 Simulation of the channel estimation of the WINNER II channel model, Slepian basis expansion and Fourier basis expansion…….32 6.2.1 Simulations of the channel estimation of the WINNER II model and the Slepian basis expan...

Usually a voting rule requires agents to give their preferences as linear orders. However, in some cases it is impractical for an agent to give a linear order over all the alternatives. It has been suggested to let agents submit partial orders instead. Then, given a voting rule, a profile of partial orders, and an alternative (candidate) c, two important questions arise: first, is it still poss...

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an air filter is a significant element of any mechanical ventilation system. however, the importance and performance evaluation of air filters have not been well publicized and related scientific reports are scarce. in this study, a transportable, off-line, air filter-testing unit (the unit) was designed and utilized to simulate the filter housing of a mechanical ventilation system. the unit wa...

Approval Voting is analyzed in a context of large elections with strategic voters, the Myerson’s Large Poisson Games. Three examples show that this voting rule does not always correctly aggregate preferences. The first one shows that a candidate ranked first by more than half of the voters need not be the Winner of the election under Approval voting. In the second one, we show that it can be th...

This deliverable describes the work done in WINNER towards the ITU-R defining the spectrum requirements for future development of IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced (WRC-07 agenda Item 1.4). The purpose of the document is to describe the WINNER work for the different steps of spectrum requirement calculation process of the ITU –R WP 8F and to give deeper background of the ITU work itself. The document a...

The POSSIBLE WINNER problem asks, given an election where the voters’ preferences over the candidates are specified only partially, whether a designated candidate can become a winner by suitably extending all the votes. Betzler and Dorn [1] proved a result that is only one step away from a full dichotomy of this problem for the important class of pure scoring rules in the case of unweighted vot...

Six studies explored the hypothesis that third parties are averse to resolving preference disputes with winner-take-all solutions when disputing factions belong to different social categories (e.g. gender, nationality, fi rms, etc.) versus the same social category. Studies 1–3 showed that third parties’ aversion to winner-take-all solutions, even when they are based on the unbiased toss of a co...