Introduction This paper is intended to introduce the subject of electronic voting. Electronic voting will be described in the context of other voting technologies. The potential benefits and risks of electronic voting systems are discussed. There will be some brief discussion of the current " environment " in terms of standards and testing programs, current and pending legislation, and electron...

This paper deals with the combination of classification models that have been derived from running different (heterogeneous) learning algorithms on the same data set. We focus on the Classifier Evaluation and Selection (ES) method, that evaluates each of the models (typically using 10-fold cross-validation) and selects the best one. We examine the performance of this method in comparison with t...

Resolving the semantic heterogeneity problem is crucial to allow interoperability between ontology-based systems. Ontology matching based on argumentation is an innovative research area that aims at solving this issue, where agents encapsulate different matching techniques and the distinct mapping results are shared, compared, chosen and agreed. In this paper, we compare three argumentation fra...

We present an important improvement related to the computation and use of Mutual Information index in Pseudobagging, a technique that adapts “bagging” to unsupervised context. The Mutual Information index plays a key role in this technique, assessing the quality of a partition. We propose the use of such an index to improve the Pseudobagging voting scheme for determining the final partition of ...

Voting is a way for a voter to make a decision or express an opinion or to choose a candidate. E-voting (Electronic Voting) refers to both the electronic means of casting a vote and the electronic means of counting and publishing that votes. The E voting system has some specific advantages as compared to the traditional voting system. In this paper, a secure and efficient e-voting protocol is p...

All the currently existing homomorphic e-voting schemes are based on additive homomorphism. In this paper a new e-voting scheme based on multiplicative homomorphism is proposed. In the tallying phase, a decryption is performed to recover the product of the votes, instead of the sum of them (as in the additive homomorphic e-voting schemes). Then, the product is factorized to recover the votes. T...

Voting tools have been incorporated into Group Support Systems (GSS) for a long time. However, theory and research on voting in GSS have been neglected. This paper reviews findings of GSS research on voting and examines the lessons learned on using voting tools in GSS. A framework is proposed to investigate voting in GSS. Additionally, directions for future research are discussed

State-of-the-art e-voting systems rely on voters to perform certain actions to ensure that the election authorities are not manipulating the election result. This so-called “end-to-end (E2E) verifiability” is the hallmark of current e-voting protocols; nevertheless, thorough analysis of current systems is still far from being complete. In this work, we initiate the study of e-voting protocols a...

In this paper the experiences from evaluating an e-democracy platform in two European cities are presented. The e-democracy platform under evaluation consisted of three main applications, mainly tele-voting for realising opinion poll petitions, tele-consultation and e-Forums. In this paper, the trials performed in Barcelona and Brent borough of London are outlined. The specification, developmen...