Mathematics

Reports outline computer modelling research from George Washington University

  2008 NOV 24 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "This paper presents an information-theoretic model of a vote counting system, and well-defined criteria for evaluating such a system with respect to integrity, privacy and verifiability."

  "The impossibility of achieving perfect integrity, perfect verifiability and perfect privacy follows easily from the information-theoretic approach," wrote B. Hosp and colleagues, George Washington University.

  The researchers concluded: "The model is applied to the measurement of privacy loss in the ThreeBallot and Farnel voting systems, and finds both systems to have similar privacy loss."

  Hosp and colleagues published their study in Mathematical and Computer Modelling (An information-theoretic model of voting systems. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 2008;48(9-10):1628-1645).

  For more information, contact B. Hospital, George Washington University, Dept. of Computational Science, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

  Publisher contact information for the journal Mathematical and Computer Modelling is: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd., the Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England.

  Keywords: Mathematics, George Washington University.

  This article was prepared by VerticalNews Mathematics editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2008, VerticalNews Mathematics via VerticalNews.com.