Actions in Social Choice
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This thesis concerns a specific procedure for social choice of a group action under uncertainty. It consists of three main parts. First we investigate formal desiderata for the single agent case. Next the model’s position relative to varying disciplines is considered. Finally we provide an implementation of the full multiagent model in the programming language Haskell.
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