Understanding computers and cognition
Understanding computers and cognition
Social choice theory and distributed decision making
COCS '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA 1988 conference on Office information systems
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Semi-structured messages are surprisingly useful for computer-supported coordination
CSCW '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
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This paper investigates the use of voting policies to coordinate routing decisions in a phone network. Although the social metaphor of voting has been applied to network coordination decision tasks, this study presents the first operational example of a vote-theoretic group decision support system (GDSS) for nodes. The experimental evidence shows that a collective choice voting policy dominates a policy of individual, hierarchical voting in minimizing movement toward system saturation and promoting load balancing. This result provides a basis for using voting policies to create more complex self-correcting networks.