[EM] Rainbow Lottery

2006-12-04 Thread Simmons, Forest
"For your eyes only." Warning: do not proceed past this point if you don't like lottery methods. Ballots are approval style. Ballots are counted in two different ways: (1) the approval count and (2) the fractional (cumulative) count, which means the candidates marked on a ballot are assign

[EM] 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice

2006-12-04 Thread Rob LeGrand
Today I'm leaving for Amsterdam to present a paper at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ulle/COMSOC-2006/ The accepted papers can be downloaded from the site. Members of this list may be interested in many of them. Should be exciting! -

Re: [EM] new book about voting methods

2006-12-04 Thread RLSuter
James, This looks like a valuable book. Unfortunately, at a list price of $115, not many people are going to be willing to buy it. In fact, I'm sure that the main reason for the high price is that the book is expected to be sold almost entirely to libraries and to academics whose perks include mon