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

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

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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.