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IPL
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Fast leader election in anonymous rings with bounded expected delay
We propose a probabilistic network model, called asynchronous bounded expected delay (ABE), which requires a known bound on the expected message delay. In ABE networks all asynchr...
Rena Bakhshi, Jörg Endrullis, Wan Fokkink, Ju...
JCSS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Towards a dichotomy for the Possible Winner problem in elections based on scoring rules
To make a joint decision, agents (or voters) are often required to provide their preferences as linear orders. To determine a winner, the given linear orders can be aggregated acc...
Nadja Betzler, Britta Dorn
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Determining the Winner of a Dodgson Election is Hard
Computing the Dodgson Score of a candidate in an election is a hard computational problem, which has been analyzed using classical and parameterized analysis. In this paper we reso...
Michael R. Fellows, Bart M. P. Jansen, Daniel Loks...
AAAI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Cloning in Elections
We consider the problem of manipulating elections via cloning candidates. In our model, a manipulator can replace each candidate c by one or more clones, i.e., new candidates that...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
WDAG
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Leader Election Problem versus Pattern Formation Problem
Leader election and arbitrary pattern formation are fundammental tasks for a set of autonomous mobile robots. The former consists in distinguishing a unique robot, called the lead...
Yoann Dieudonné, Franck Petit, Vincent Vill...