Article ID: | iaor20115255 |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 424 |
End Page Number: | 433 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
Authors: | Freixas Josep, Carreras Francesc, Puente Mara Albina |
Keywords: | decision theory, decision, statistics: decision |
Binary voting systems, usually represented by simple games, constitute a main DSS topic. A crucial feature of such a system is the easiness with which a proposal can be collectively accepted, which is measured by the ‘decisiveness index’ of the corresponding game. We study here several functions related to the decisiveness of any simple game. The analysis, including the asymptotic behavior as the number