Social influence models with ranking alternatives and local election rules (Q1072418)

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Social influence models with ranking alternatives and local election rules
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    Social influence models with ranking alternatives and local election rules (English)
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    We study iterative processes on a group of mutually interacting members. We assume that each member makes his decision ''in a direction of subgradient'' of a convex function. We show that many reasonable evaluation procedures are of this kind. In particular, we prove that every ''iterative voting process'' has period at most two.
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    acyclic
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    symmetric
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    ranking alternatives
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    local election rules
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    mutually interacting members
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    subgradient
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    convex function
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    iterative voting process
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