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SCW
2016
IEEE
10 years 22 days ago
Statistical evaluation of voting rules
: We generate synthetic elections using two sources of survey data, two spatial models, and two standard models from the voting literature, IAC and IC. For each election that we ge...
James Green-Armytage, T. Nicolaus Tideman, Rafael ...
SCW
2016
IEEE
10 years 22 days ago
Multiple votes, multiple candidacies and polarization
We use the citizen-candidate model to study the differential incentives that alternative voting rules provide for candidate entry, and their effect on policy polarization. In pa...
Arnaud Dellis, Mandar P. Oak
SCW
2016
IEEE
10 years 22 days ago
A note on the McKelvey uncovered set and Pareto optimality
We consider the notion of Pareto optimality under the assumption that only the pairwise majority relation is known and show that the set of necessarily Pareto optimal alternatives ...
Felix Brandt, Christian Geist, Paul Harrenstein
SCW
2016
IEEE
10 years 22 days ago
Aggregation of binary evaluations: a Borda-like approach
We characterize a rule for aggregating binary evaluations that is similar in spirit to the Borda rule from the preference aggregation literature. The framework of binary evaluatio...
Conal Duddy, Ashley Piggins, William S. Zwicker
SCP
2016
10 years 22 days ago
Improving static analyses of C programs with conditional predicates
Abstract. Static code analysis is increasingly used to guarantee the absence of undesirable behaviors in industrial programs. Designing sound analyses is a continuing trade-off be...
Sandrine Blazy, David Bühler, Boris Yakobowsk...
SCP
2016
10 years 22 days ago
Parameterized, concurrent session types for asynchronous multi-actor interactions
Session types have been proposed as a means of statically verifying implementations of communication protocols. Although prior work has been successful for some classes of protoco...
Minas Charalambides, Peter Dinges, Gul A. Agha
SCP
2016
10 years 22 days ago
Randomised testing of a microprocessor model using SMT-solver state generation
Abstract. We validate a HOL4 model of the ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller core by testing the model’s behaviour on randomly chosen instructions against a real chip. The model and o...
Brian Campbell, Ian Stark
SCN
2016
Springer
10 years 22 days ago
Anonymous communication in overlay networks
Jian Ren, Yun Li, Tingting Jiang, Tongtong Li