Weighted voting systems: Reliability versus rapidity

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-184

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a Planning   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

DECISION TIME; RAPIDITY; SYSTEM PARAMETERS; WEIGHTED VOTING SYSTEM (WVS);

VOTING MACHINES;

EID: 14844339423     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.08.017     Document Type: Article

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