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  • Probabilities of voting paradoxes with three candidates

    Creator:
    McDonald, Leslie M.
    Abstract:
    Pardoxes in voting has been an interest of voting theorists since the 1800's when Condorcet demonstrated the key example of a voting paradox: voters with individually transitive rankings produce an election outcome which is not transitive. With Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the hope of finding a fair voting method which accurately...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , Francis Galton, and the well-known fiction writer Rev. C. L. Dodgson, proposed other methods and

  • Revenue-based spectrum management via Markov decision process

    Creator:
    Zhu, Pingan
    Abstract:
    We consider the problem of wireless spectrum management in cognitive wireless networks that maximizes the revenue for a spectrum operator. Specifically, we study the problem on how a wireless spectrum operator can optimally allocate its limited spectrum to various classes users/devices who pay differently for their spectrum per unit time....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    rate T o ta l r ev en u e (D o lla rs ) Backward Induction Greedy (a) Total revenue for

  • Computing entropy for Z²-actions

    Creator:
    Pierce, Larry A.
    Abstract:
    For a certain class of Z²-actions, we provide a proof of a conjecture that the ratio of the Perron eigenvalues of the transfer matrices of the free boundary restrictions converge to the entropy of that action. Also, a novel method for computing the entropy of Z²-actions is conjectured.
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    ,W,Q,D}, then ̺(Q) = 4 . Let a = ̺(A), b = ̺(B), c = ̺(C), and d = ̺(D) . The element V2(AB,CD) is