[EM] Free riding

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-elmet at broadpark.no
Sun Aug 31 14:49:54 PDT 2008


Juho wrote:

> This particular example resembles Hylland free riding (it is an 
> optimized version of it) but there could be also many other examples, 
> some of which resemble e.g. Woodall free riding. Only in some special 
> cases this method resembles Hylland. The point is to evaluate the 
> probabilities and utilities of all candidates and vote accordingly. If 
> looking for links to Woodall and Hylland, this approach in a way tries 
> to generalize them under one framework.

If the point is to generalize the various vote management / free-riding 
methods under one framework, you should explain why they seem different. 
For instance, to my knowledge, Meek would fix Woodall free riding but do 
little with Hylland free riding.



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