This open access book E-Vote-ID 2022 focuses on Electronic Voting from aspects relating to security and usability much more.

This paper aims to introduce the current situation of electronic voting (e-voting) in Japan and discuss its challenges. E-voting has gradually spread in Japan. It has been used a total of twenty times by ten local governments since it was first introduced in 2002. Under the current law, e-voting can be used only for the election of the head of local government or council members. The paper firs...

This introduction to the Public Choice special issue on “Quadratic Voting and the Public Good” provides an opinionated narrative summary of the contents and surveys the broader literature related to Quadratic Voting (QV). QV is a voting rule, proposed by one of us (Weyl, 2012; Lalley and Weyl, 2016) building off earlier work by Groves and Ledyard (1977) and Hylland and Zeckhauser (1980), where ...

We propose a method for object category localization by partially matching edge contours to a single shape prototype of the category. Previous work in this area either relies on piecewise contour approximations, requires meaningful supervised decompositions, or matches coarse shape-based descriptions at local interest points. Our method avoids error-prone pre-processing steps by using all obtai...

In this paper, different circuits of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) are proposed for the so-called coplanar crossing. Coplanar crossing is one of the most interesting features of QCA because it allows for mono-layered interconnected circuits, whereas CMOS technology needs different levels of metalization. However, the characteristics of the coplanar crossing make it prone to malfunction du...

The aim of this paper is to present a hybrid group decision model for evaluating flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs), in which the information about attribute weights is completely unknown, and the attribute values take the form of triangular fuzzy numbers. In this proposed methodology, the voting method is adopted to calculate the attribute weights by aggregating the decision-makers’ attitude...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of a brake-by-wire application that tolerates transient faults by temporal error masking. A specially designed real-time kernel that masks errors by triple time-redundant execution and voting executes the application on a failstop computer node. The objective is to reduce the number of node failures by masking errors at the computer node level. The...

Democracy was not a well known term for the Iraqi people till 2003, when the US and coalition forces begun a military action against the Iraqi regime at that time. After that, the new constitution in Iraq allows the citizen to elect the government, the local governments, and the parliament, every 4 years. For this reason, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) was established to manag...

OBJECTIVE Psychiatrists and other physicians sometimes read publications superficially, relying excessively on abstracts. The authors addressed this problem by teaching critical appraisal of individual articles. METHOD The authors developed a 23-item appraisal instrument to assess articles in the area of psychopharmacology. The results were collected with an electronic voting system. A discus...