Preliminaries • A social decision scheme (SDS) is a function that maps a preference profile to a lottery over the alternatives. Formally, an SDS is a function f : RFN → ∆(A). • An SDS is majoritarian if it only depends on the (unweighted) 
 majority comparisons between alternatives. • We compare lotteries using stochastic dominance (SD). A lottery p is preferred to another lottery q if the expe...

Analyzing lottery data from the web is often a problem for those who are enthusiastic about lottery. The difficulty of real-time lottery data acquisition and recording is another problem that may set most people down. This paper uses automatic reference control and . NET control provided by LabVIEW to capture the underlying data from web. The obtained information from web pages is then transfor...

Economists have long been interested in determining whether increases in income cause either a stabilizing effect on a couple’s marriage or a destabilizing “independence effect”. However, estimating the effect of income on marital stability is difficult due to a lack of exogenous pure income shocks. To overcome that problem, we compare the divorce rates of winners of large cash prizes through t...

This paper uses delaying functions, functions that require signiicant calculation time, in the development of a one-pass lottery scheme in which winners are chosen fairly using only internal information. Since all this information may be published (even before the lottery closes), anyone can do the calculation and therefore verify that the winner was chosen correctly. Since the calculation uses...

A serendipitous finding supports Rotter's proposition that individual differences in generalized expectancy for internal versus external control of reinforcement depend upon the individual's history of reinforcement. The I-E scale was administered to a group of Yale undergraduates on the day following the draft lottery. Those who were 19 or older and were therefore affected by the lottery showe...

Adaptation level theory suggests that both contrast and habituation will operate to prevent the winning of a fortune from elevating happiness as much as might be expected. Contrast with the peak experience of winning should lessen the impact of ordinary pleasures, while habituation should eventually reduce the value of new pleasures made possible by winning. Study 1 compared a sample of 22 majo...

In this paper, we study two proportional-share resource management algorithms, Lottery Scheduling and Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF), and compare their performances in scheduling real time jobs having specific deadlines. Lottery scheduling is not used to schedule real time jobs; we test whether we can use it for this purpose by designing the ticket allocation policy according ...

In 2009, a non-iterative privacy preservation for online lotteries is proposed in IET Information Security by J.S lee, C.S Chan and C.C Chang [1], who claim their scheme achieve the following properties:  Privacy. No one can learn the choices made by lottery players except the players themselves.  Security. No one can counterfeit a winner or forge a winning lottery ticket to claim the prize. ...

In school choice, children submit a preference ranking over schools to a centralized assignment algorithm, which takes into account schools’ priorities over children and uses randomization to break ties. One criticism of current school choice mechanisms is that they tend to disperse communities so children do not go to school with others from their neighborhood. We suggest to improve community ...

If payoffs are tickets for binary lotteries, which involve only two money prizes, then rationality requires expected value maximization in tickets. This payoff scheme was increasingly used to induce risk neutrality in experiments. The experiment presented here involved lottery choice and evaluation tasks. One subject group was paid in binary lottery tickets, another directly in money. Significa...