DocumentCode
1230883
Title
Stability analysis of regional and national voting schemes by a continuous model
Author
Chen, Liang ; Tokuda, Naoyuki
Author_Institution
Math & Comput. Sci. Program, British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Volume
15
Issue
4
fYear
2003
Firstpage
1037
Lastpage
1042
Abstract
The previous discrete-model-based stability analysis of regional and national voting has been extended to a continuous-model-based analysis in the simultaneous presence of white and concentrated components of noise, reconfirming the previous conclusion that regional voting with smaller sized regions always demonstrates an improved stability over those with larger sized regions, including the national voting in its limiting case in particular. The conclusion remains valid as long as the weak distribution assumption is valid.
Keywords
decision making; image processing; numerical stability; white noise; concentrated noise components; continuous-model-based analysis; discrete-model-based stability analysis; national voting schemes; regional voting schemes; weak distribution assumption; white noise components; Computer vision; Decision making; Fault tolerance; Game theory; Image recognition; Mathematical model; Nominations and elections; Stability analysis; Testing; Voting;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-4347
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TKDE.2003.1209019
Filename
1209019
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