Forest Simmons wrote (20 June 2003): > If your method is the same as Eppley's MAM in all other respects, then > perhaps we could say that you are one of those geniuses that independently > (re)discovered a great method:-)
Eric Gorr wrote (20 June 2003): > First, it's not my method - I just implemented it. It came from Mike > Ossipoff. As to it's origins...it's probably buried in an archive > somewhere. He was calling it Ranked Pairs - Deterministic #1(wv) Ranked Pairs has been proposed by Tideman in 1987. This has been mentioned already when this method has been introduced to this mailing list for the first time in 1997. Neither Ossipoff nor Eppley claim that they have discovered this method independently from Tideman. 1. T. Nicolaus Tideman, "Independence of Clones as a Criterion for Voting Rules," Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 4, p. 185-206, 1987, 2. Thomas M. Zavist, T. Nicolaus Tideman, "Complete Independence of Clones in the Ranked Pairs Rule," Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 6, p. 167-173, 1989, 3. Jonathan Levin, Barry Nalebuff, "An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 3-26, 1995, 4. http://www.condorcet.org/rp/index.shtml Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
