Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting, Paperback by Laslier, J. -francois,...

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Subject: Game Theory, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Operations Research, General, Econometrics, Discrete Mathematics Publication Name: Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting Item Height: 0.2 in Series: Studies in Economic Theory Ser. width: 6.1 in Language: English Publication Year: 2011 Type: Textbook Format: Trade Paperback Item Weight: 14.9 Oz Subject Area: Mathematics, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics Item Length: 9.3 in Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Author: J. -Francois Laslier height: 0.2 in Item Width: 6.1 in Number of Pages: Xiv, 256 Pages Book Title: Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting ISBN: 9783642645617

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Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting, Paperback by Laslier, J. -francois,.... Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting, Paperback by Laslier, J. -francois, ISBN 3642645615, ISBN-13 9783642645617, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book is a survey on the problem of choosing from a tournament. It brings together under a unified and self-contained presentation results and concepts from Graph Theory, Choice Theory, Decision Science and Social Choice which were discovered in the last ten years. Classical scoring and ranking methods are introduced, including the Slater orderings, as well as new statistical methods for describing a tournament, graph-theoretical methods based on the covering relation and game-theoretical methods. As an illustration, results are applied to the classical problem of Majority Voting: How to deal with the Condorcet Paradox. Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting, Paperback by Laslier, J. -francois, ISBN 3642645615, ISBN-13 9783642645617, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book is a survey on the problem of choosing from a tournament. It brings together under a unified and self-contained presentation results and concepts from Graph Theory, Choice Theory, Decision Science and Social Choice which were discovered in the last ten years. Classical scoring and ranking methods are introduced, including the Slater orderings, as well as new statistical methods for describing a tournament, graph-theoretical methods based on the covering relation and game-theoretical methods. As an illustration, results are applied to the classical problem of Majority Voting: How to deal with the Condorcet Paradox.