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Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

Michael B. Gibilisco; Annie M. Gowen; Karen E. Albert; John N. Mordeson; Mark J. Wierman; Terry D. Clark

Springer International Publishing AG
2014
sidottu
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social choice theorems. To do this, the book explores the presupposition of rationality within the fuzzy framework and shows that the two conditions for rationality, completeness and transitivity, do exist with fuzzy preferences. Specifically, this book examines: the conditions under which a maximal set exists; the Arrow’s theorem; the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem and the median voter theorem. After showing that a non-empty maximal set does exists for fuzzy preference relations, this book goes on to demonstrating the existence of a fuzzy aggregation rule satisfying all five Arrowian conditions, including non-dictatorship. While the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem only considers individual fuzzy preferences, this work shows that both individuals and groups can choose alternatives to various degrees, resulting in a social choice that can be both strategy-proof and non-dictatorial. Moreover, the median voter theorem is shown to hold under strict fuzzy preferences but not under weak fuzzy preferences. By providing a standard model of fuzzy social choice and by drawing the necessary connections between the major theorems, this book fills an important gap in the current literature and encourages future empirical research in the field.
Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Peter C. Casey; Michael B. Gibilisco; Carly A. Goodman; Kelly Nelson Pook; John N. Mordeson; Mark J. Wierman; Terry D. Clark

Springer International Publishing AG
2014
sidottu
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the outcome of government formation processes in European parliamentary and semi-presidential systems. Using data from the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), the authors propose a new approach that reinterprets error in the coding of CMP data as ambiguity in the actual political positions of parties on the policy dimensions being coded. The range of this error establishes parties’ fuzzy preferences. The set of possible outcomes in the process of government formation is then calculated on the basis of both the fuzzy Pareto set and the fuzzy maximal set, and the predictions are compared with those made by two conventional approaches as well as with the government that was actually formed. The comparison shows that, in most cases, the fuzzy approaches outperform their conventional counterparts.
Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

Michael B. Gibilisco; Annie M. Gowen; Karen E. Albert; John N. Mordeson; Mark J. Wierman; Terry D. Clark

Springer International Publishing AG
2016
nidottu
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social choice theorems. To do this, the book explores the presupposition of rationality within the fuzzy framework and shows that the two conditions for rationality, completeness and transitivity, do exist with fuzzy preferences. Specifically, this book examines: the conditions under which a maximal set exists; the Arrow’s theorem; the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem and the median voter theorem. After showing that a non-empty maximal set does exists for fuzzy preference relations, this book goes on to demonstrating the existence of a fuzzy aggregation rule satisfying all five Arrowian conditions, including non-dictatorship. While the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem only considers individual fuzzy preferences, this work shows that both individuals and groups can choose alternatives to various degrees, resulting in a social choice that can be both strategy-proof and non-dictatorial. Moreover, the median voter theorem is shown to hold under strict fuzzy preferences but not under weak fuzzy preferences. By providing a standard model of fuzzy social choice and by drawing the necessary connections between the major theorems, this book fills an important gap in the current literature and encourages future empirical research in the field.
Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Peter C. Casey; Michael B. Gibilisco; Carly A. Goodman; Kelly Nelson Pook; John N. Mordeson; Mark J. Wierman; Terry D. Clark

Springer International Publishing AG
2016
nidottu
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the outcome of government formation processes in European parliamentary and semi-presidential systems. Using data from the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), the authors propose a new approach that reinterprets error in the coding of CMP data as ambiguity in the actual political positions of parties on the policy dimensions being coded. The range of this error establishes parties’ fuzzy preferences. The set of possible outcomes in the process of government formation is then calculated on the basis of both the fuzzy Pareto set and the fuzzy maximal set, and the predictions are compared with those made by two conventional approaches as well as with the government that was actually formed. The comparison shows that, in most cases, the fuzzy approaches outperform their conventional counterparts.
Database Design: Know It All

Database Design: Know It All

Toby J. Teorey; Tony Morgan; Thomas P. Nadeau; Bonnie O'Neil; Elizabeth O'Neil; Patrick O'Neil; Markus Schneider; Graeme Simsion; Graham Witt; Stephen Buxton; Lowell Fryman; Ralf Hartmut Güting; Terry Halpin; Jan L. Harrington; W.H. Inmon; Sam S. Lightstone; Jim Melton

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
2008
sidottu
This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.
Book Marketing for Authors

Book Marketing for Authors

Terri Ann Leidich; Julie Bromley

WriteLife LLC
2021
pokkari
The biggest challenge for authors is transitioning from being a writer to being an author, which are two totally different occupations. Many authors have the mindset that once they are published, their publisher handles all marketing and the sales come in like magic. In today's world, that is not reality, no matter how you are published. Written by publisher and author Terri Ann Leidich and author marketing coach and support Julie Bromley, this book simplifies marketing by taking the approach of Get Ready, Get Set, Succeed.
Pochemu Marks byl prav

Pochemu Marks byl prav

Terri Iglton

Karera Press
2017
sidottu
Iz nabora otdelnykh teorij i kontseptsij predshestvujuschego perioda Marks prevratil politekonomiju, kotoraja vo mnogom opredeljaetsja politicheskoj aktivnostju ljudej, v tselostnuju nauku s edinym sistemnym podkhodom i globalnym proektom, porodivshim Sovetskij Sojuz, a zatem i mirovuju sistemu sotsializma. Ekonomika stala ideologicheskim protivovesom politekonomii. Kljuchevoj vopros - buduschee ekonomicheskoj formatsii - segodnja, spustja 130 let posle sozdanija rabot Marksa, v period globalnykh rynkov, esche bolee aktualen, chem prezhde. Buduchi odnim iz krupnejshikh sovremennykh filosofov, Terri Iglton provodit glubokij analiz rabot Marksa, opirajas na tochnoe tsitirovanie i sovremennuju ekonomicheskuju realnost, razrushaja mify i ideologemy, porozhdennye kak kapitalisticheskim, tak i sotsialisticheskim otvetom na vopros: chto delat dalshe.
Terre À l'Amende

Terre À l'Amende

Mark Power

Gost Books
2021
sidottu
Encouraged to investigate the landscape of Guernsey through a commission from the Guernsey Photography Festival, Mark Power began to explore different ways of looking, and recording, the same place through a series of long-walks spending several weeks on the island. The first thing he noticed was the profusion of signs proclaiming 'Terre l'Amende', threatening a fine for trespassing. This, along with mile upon mile of walls and fences delineating private land, only served to alienate Power and reinforced his position as an outsider here. He was acutely aware that Guernsey markets itself to the outside world as an idyllic holiday destination, but as Power began to look carefully it wasn't difficult to see what might lie beneath. Revelling in this irony, he deviated from traditional picturesque representations and instead went in search of this contrary vision; one of an uneasy, unsettling place where all might not be as it seems.