On 12/17/05, Simmons, Forest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rob, in my experience typically when there is a Condorcet Cycle there is no Approval Strategy A style equilibrium of the kind you posit in your second message on this topic.It had been under the understanding that there will always be at leas
Rob, in my experience typically when there is a Condorcet Cycle there is no
Approval Strategy A style equilibrium of the kind you posit in your second
message on this topic.
However, the method you propose in your earlier message might indeed approach
an approval strategy A configuration as a
Sorry for replying to my own post, but it occured to me that there is a more straightforward (although possibly less efficient) way of finding the "Approval Equilibrium". If there are multiple Approval Equilibriums, it will find all of them, and if none, it can determine that as well. (I'm pretty
I'm submitting the following method that I believe to be strategy-free. There is no randomness involved (although like any method without randomness, it is subject to true ties). I believe it is immune to unresolvable cycles, with the exception of true ties. (I have not proven this last point)
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