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Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn

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ISBN-10: 3540791272

ISBN-13: 9783540791270

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter C. Fishburn, Steven Brams, William V. Gehrlein, Fred S. Roberts

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This volume serves the multiple purposes of honoring Peter Fishburn's contributions, providing both expository and new papers from leading figures in each of the areas of Fishburn's research, and putting into one volume a wide variety of topics that are often not included together.
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Book details

List price: $179.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Publication date: 12/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Steven J. Brams is professor of politics at New York University.

Utility, Preference, Individual Choice, Subjective Probability, and Measurement
Utility Theory
Entropy-Related Measures of the Utility of Gambling
Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions
SSB Preferences: Nonseparable Utilities or Nonseparable Beliefs
Decision Theory
Decision Making Based on Risk-Value Tradeoffs
Normally Distributed Admissible Choices are Optimal
A Conjoint Measurement Approach to the Discrete Sugeno Integral
Measurement Theory
Additive Representability of Finite Measurement Structures
Social Choice, Voting, and Social Welfare
Condorcet Domains and Probabilities
Acyclic Domains of Linear Orders: A Survey
Condorcet Domains: A Geometric Perspective
Condorcet's Paradox with Three Candidates
On the Probability to Act in the European Union
Voting Rules
Voting Systems that Combine Approval and Preference
Anonymous Voting Rules with Abstention: Weighted Voting
Social Choice
Pareto, Anonymity or Neutrality, but Not IIA: Countably Many Alternatives
Fair Division
Bruhat Orders and the Sequential Selection of Indivisible Items
Posets, Graphs, Combinatorics, and Related Applied and Mathematical Topics
Partial Orders and Interval Orders
Fractional Weak Discrepancy of Posets and Certain Forbidden Configurations
Interval Order Representation via Shortest Paths
Probe Interval Orders
Graphs
Mediatic Graphs
An Application of Stahl's Conjecture About the k-Tuple Chromatic Numbers of Kneser Graphs
Various Applied Mathematics Topics
Optimal Reservation Scheme Routing for Two-Rate Wide-Sense Nonblocking Three-Stage Clos Networks
Correlation Inequalities for Partially Ordered Algebras
The Kruskal Count
Descending Dungeons and Iterated Base-Changing
Updating Hardy, Littlewood and P�lya with Linear Programming