[EM] LNHarm performance: CDTT and Schulze

Gervase Lam gervase.lam at group.force9.co.uk
Wed Mar 30 16:11:42 PST 2005


> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:24:00 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Kevin Venzke
> Subject: [EM] LNHarm performance: CDTT and Schulze

> I wrote a simulation to measure the rate of LNHarm failures under
> certain circumstances. I've used it to compare a CDTT method,
> Schulze(wv), Schulze(margins), and Schulze(opposition).

> I used Schulze because I have and understand the source code for it. But
> it might be an intuitive choice anyway for a method to compare with the
> CDTT, since both use roughly the same code: You can find the CDTT set by
> modifying Markus' code in a minor way.

Another question.  What is the algorithm that is used to find the Schwartz 
set for Schulze?  Is it Dijkstra or something similar to it?

Thanks,
Gervase.



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