The Condorcet method, developed by 18th century French mathematician Nicolas de Condorcet, consists of aggregating pairwise comparisons between alternatives (a.k.a. candidates) into a duel graph where ...

At times a group of people, with differing and inconsistent opinions, must come together to make a decision between several options. This happens in business, it happens in social organizations, and ...

Attentive readers may have noticed I am not a fan of the alternative vote. I don’t think it is proportional – because it isn’t. However, it is not a bad system for selecting a candidate for a single ...

At times a group of people, with differing and inconsistent opinions, must come together to make a decision between several options. This happens in business, it happens in social organizations, and ...

My first three years of College and majoring in Computer Science I had one goal of expanding my breadth of knowledge in the Computer Science realm. I have explored the fields of Scientific Computing, ...

The impossibility theorems that abound in the theory of social choice show that there can be no satisfactory method for electing and ranking in the context of the traditional, 700-year-old model. A ...