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15 produkter
Fair Voting Methods
Resolving Arrow's Theorem and Other Paradoxes
Inbunden, 2027
977 kr
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Decisions are everywhere--from a group's choice of pizza to a decision on a family vacation to the elections of political leaders. Central to the functioning of our organizations is the belief that these decisions reflect the wishes of voters. Yet most voting rules are unreliable and can lead to …
Decisions and Elections
Explaining the Unexpected
Häftad, 2001
720 kr
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It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? …
Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting Paradoxes
Social Choice Analysis
Inbunden, 2008
770 kr
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We decide by elections, but do we elect who the voters really want? The answer, as we have learned over the last two centuries, is 'not necessarily'. What a negative, frightening assertion about a principal tool of democracy! This negativism has been supported by two hundred years of published …
Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting Paradoxes
Social Choice Analysis
Häftad, 2008
394 kr
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We decide by elections, but do we elect who the voters really want? The answer, as we have learned over the last two centuries, is 'not necessarily'. What a negative, frightening assertion about a principal tool of democracy! This negativism has been supported by two hundred years of published …
Decisions and Elections
Explaining the Unexpected
Inbunden, 2001
1693 kr
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It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? …
Chaotic Elections!
A Mathematician Looks at Voting
Häftad, 2001
483 kr
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What does the 2000 U.S. presidential election have in common with selecting a textbook for a calculus course in your department? Was Ralph Nader's influence on the election of George W. Bush greater than the now-famous chads? In ""Chaotic Elections!"", Don Saari analyzes these questions, placing …
Mathematics Motivated by the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Häftad, 2018
777 kr
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The mathematical challenges coming from the social and behavioral sciences differ significantly from typical applied mathematical concerns. ""Change,"" for instance, is ubiquitous, but without knowing the fundamental driving force, standard differential and iterative methods are not appropriate. …
Mathematics of Finance
An Intuitive Introduction
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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This textbook invites the reader to develop a holistic grounding in mathematical finance, where concepts and intuition play as important a role as powerful mathematical tools. Financial interactions are characterized by a vast amount of data and uncertainty; navigating the inherent dangers and …
Mathematics of Finance
An Intuitive Introduction
E-bok, 2019
442 kr
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This textbook invites the reader to develop a holistic grounding in mathematical finance, where concepts and intuition play as important a role as powerful mathematical tools. Financial interactions are characterized by a vast amount of data and uncertainty; navigating the inherent dangers and …
Coordinate Systems for Games
Simplifying the "me" and "we" Interactions
Av Daniel T. Jessie, Donald G. Saari
Häftad, 2019
659 kr
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This monograph develops a method of creating convenient coordinate systems for game theory that will allow readers to more easily understand, analyze, and create games at various levels of complexity. By identifying the unique characterization of games that separates the individual’s strategic …
Coordinate Systems for Games
Simplifying the "me" and "we" Interactions
Av Donald G. Saari, Daniel T. Jessie
E-bok, 2019
897 kr
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This monograph develops a method of creating convenient coordinate systems for game theory that will allow readers to more easily understand, analyze, and create games at various levels of complexity. By identifying the unique characterization of games that separates the individual’s strategic …
Basic Geometry of Voting
Häftad, 1995
1094 kr
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A surprise is how the complexities of voting theory can be explained and resolved with the comfortable geometry of our three-dimensional world. This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results. As an example, a new …
Geometry of Voting
E-bok, 2012
1502 kr
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Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and decision procedures do not behave as expected. Instead, we now know that when different tallying methods are applied to the same ballots, radically different outcomes can emerge, that most procedures can select …
Geometry of Voting
Häftad, 2012
1131 kr
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Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and decision procedures do not behave as expected. Instead, we now know that when different tallying methods are applied to the same ballots, radically different outcomes can emerge, that most procedures can select …
Basic Geometry of Voting
E-bok, 2012
1470 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A surprise is how the complexities of voting theory can be explained and resolved with the comfortable geometry of our three-dimensional world. This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results. As an example, a new …
