Essays about: "single peaked"

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1. 6. Design of VoIP Paralleled Client-Server Software for Multicore

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)

   Author : Zeeshan Khan; [2013]
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   Abstract : As "Voice over IP" has become more prevalent and many client and server applications have been designed for them, the VoIP industry has seen the need for faster, more capable systems to keep up. Traditionally, system speed-up has been achieved by increasing clock speeds but, conventional single-core CPU clock rates have peaked a few years ago due to very high power consumption and heating problems. READ MORE

3. 7. On the Strategy-proof Social Choice of Fixed-sized Subsets

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Johannes Reffgen; [2006]
   Keywords : Strategy-proofness; Multi-valuedness; Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem; Linked domains; Partial preference relations; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis gives a contribution to strategy-proof social choice theory, in which one investigates to what extent there exist voting procedures that never can be manipulated in the sense that some voter by misrepresentation of his preferences can change the outcome of the voting and obtain an alternative he prefers to that honest voting would give. When exactly one element should be elected from a set of at least three alternatives, then the fundamental result in strategy-proof social choice theory, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, shows that there in general exists no satisfactory non-manipulable voting procedure. READ MORE