Recently, distributed computing infrastructures such as grid computing, have witnessed huge developments which have a very important impact on computationally intensive scientific, industrial and engineering problems. Collaborative computing, resources access and sharing facilitated by grid computing systems amplifies concerns about cyber attacks and misbehaviors of grid resources (resources pr...

We evaluate critically some of the properties of the Majority Judgement voting procedure recently proposed by Balinski and Laraki (2007a, 2007b) for the election of one out of two or more candidates.

We re-examine, from a political economy perspective, the standard view that higher capital mobility results in lower capital taxes a view, in fact, that is not confirmed by the available empirical evidence. We show that when a small economy is opened to capital mobility, the change of incidence of a tax on capital from capital owners to owners of the immobile factor may interact in such a way w...

We introduce Item Response Theory (IRT) from psychometrics as an alternative to majority voting to create an IRT gold standard (GSIRT ). IRT describes characteristics of individual items in GSIRT their difficulty and discriminating power and is able to account for these characteristics in its estimation of human intelligence or ability for an NLP task. In this paper, we evaluated IRT’s model-fi...

In this paper a novel method is proposed to combine decision tree classifiers using calculated classification confidence values. This confidence in the classification is based on distance calculation to the relevant decision boundary. It is shown that these values – provided by individual classification trees – can be integrated to derive a consensus decision. The proposed combination scheme – ...

Sequential majority voting over interconnected binary propositions can lead to the overruling of unanimous consensus. We characterize, within the general framework of judgement aggregation, under what circumstances this happens for some sequence of the voting process. It turns out that the class of aggregation spaces for which this difficulty arises is very large, including the aggregation of p...

In the deterministic binary majority process we are given a simple graph where each node has one out of two initial opinions. In every round, each node adopts the majority opinion among its neighbors. It is known that this process always converges in O (|E|) rounds to a two-periodic state in which every node either keeps its opinion or changes it in every round. It has been shown by Frischknech...

This paper proposes a new method of Chinese word segmentation based on proportional analogy and majority voting. First, we introduce an analogy-based method for solving the word segmentation problem. Second, we show how to use majority voting to make the decision on where to segment. The preliminary results show that this approach compares well with other segmenters reported in previous studies...