From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But take care - it's my understanding that borda relies totally on > ranking ALL choices and that to work correctly every agent much vote on > ALL candidates, ranking them from best to worst.
> Voting theory is like hashing or building random number generators. > It's really easy to do it wrong and screw it up and think you did it right. Here's another approach: "Range Voting" http://rangevoting.org/rangeVborda.html The author of this particular page makes much of the pitfalls of strategic voting, which should not matter to a set of emotionally disinterested, independent agent routines. But range voting has one further advantage over borda voting: expressiveness. If an agent is given 99 votes to cast, the agent can say that A is a really fine move, worth 45 points; B and C and D are worth 15 points each, and I have no opinion on the remaining choices" -- or whatever reflects the state of the board as understood by this particular agent. This expressiveness may help or hinder; hard to say. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
