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Systematic Biology 2004 53(3):515-517; doi:10.1080/10635150490445887
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Bioconsensus.—M. F. Janowitz, F.-J. Lapointe, F. R. McMorris, B. Mirkin, and F. S. Roberts, editors. (DIMACS series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, v. 61). 2003. American Mathematical Society. 242 pp. ISBN 0–8218–3197–6. $75.00.

Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Laboratory for High Performance Algorithm Engineering and Computational Molecular Biology, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA

Bioconsensus.—M. F. Janowitz, F.-J. Lapointe, F. R. McMorris, B. Mirkin, and F. S. Roberts, editors. (DIMACS series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, v. 61). 2003. American Mathematical Society. 242 pp. ISBN 0–8218–3197–6. $75.00.

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"Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals."

Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli diplomat.

Group decision-making is as old and as ubiquitous as human societies. Should the gladiator live? How much harvest should be stored for the winter? Which is the best movie of the year? Who should be the Democratic presidential nominee? Which is the true evolutionary tree? The formal theory of voting and social choice dates back to the 18th century members of the French Academy of Sciences, Marquis de Condorcet (Condorcet, 1785) and de Borda (de Borda, 1784). The Rev. C. L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carrol, "wrote extensively on committees, elections, and proportionate representation" (Black, 1958). The modern developments in the field originate in Kenneth J. Arrow's 1951 doctoral thesis (Arrow, 1963), who developed a mathematical system to consider possible voting schemes and showed . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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