Understanding the nature of strategic voting is the holy grail of social choice theory, where game-theory, social science and recently computational approaches are all applied in order to model the incentives and behavior of voters. In a recent paper, Meir et al. (2014) made another step in this direction, by suggesting a behavioral game-theoretic model for voters under uncertainty. For a speci...

We show that n 1 2 pairwise equality comparisons are necessary and su cient (in the worst case) to nd a plurality in n colored balls.

We provide exact relations giving the probability of individual and coalitional manipulation of three specific social choice functions (Borda rule, Copeland rule, Plurality rule) in three-alternative elections when the notion of self-selectivity is imposed. The results suggest that the Borda rule is more vulnerable to coalitional manipulation than the Copeland rule and the Plurality rule. Howev...

unity is one of the most important social issues in the holy religion of islam. unity makes possible entanglement from dependencies, success in settling social issues, and firmness in confronting conspiracies and invasions. since islam is a religion of kindness and brotherhood, it invites its followers to engage in being united, which will, however, never be achieved without resolving conflicts...

because of using principles such as principality, unity, gradation of existence and concomitance between existence and unity, along with an exhaustive understanding of ibn sina's philosophical principle about our knowledge of unity and multiplicity, mulla sadra believed new philosophical-aesthetical principles such as principality, unity and gradation of beauty, though he didn't use t...

This paper presents a set of largely novel data concerning conjunction inside the noun phrase, and shows how this little-studied domain includes structures with readings which are quite unexpected under any current theory of coordination. Moreover, these readings vary across languages in an interesting and systematic fashion. To address this problem, we outline a new proposal for the interpreta...

Although Political Theology examined mainly the political dimension of relationship between God-Father and God-Son, it is paramount to consider performance Holy Spirit in Economy Redemption. The has been characterized as binding cause principle relationality both referring God’s inner life with His creatures. As personalization relationality, performs a unique task: bring together what apart by...