[EM] Re: Schwartz//SC-WMA

Forest Simmons simmonfo at up.edu
Tue Dec 14 10:24:51 PST 2004


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Chris Benham wrote:

> Forest,
> I  can't pretend to understand your proposed de-cloning mechanism, and I'm 
> surprised that  you are interested in Copeland
> because I thought that one of its main problems is that it usually isn't very 
> decisive.

Well I came up with de-cloned Copeland while looking for a good 
non-deterministic method, so I consider it to be semi-deterministic.

I'm not sure, but I suspect it fails monotonicity.  If so, then back to 
the drawing board:')

My next best (stochastic) prospect is random ballot Banks.

Forest



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