Indirect Control of Corporations: Analysis and Simulations

This paper is devoted to indirect control in corporate shareholding networks. This topic is important in financial economics. Since shareholding size does not actually reflect an investor’s power-control in corporate shareholding networks, diverse approaches to measuring the control-power of investors were proposed. We focuses in particular on a game-theoretical approach, namely on the model of Denti and Prati (2001) and its implementation to control sharing analysis and simulation in shareholding networks thanks to the computer program “Control Sharing Simulation.

Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXIII

This paper deals with the concept of manipulation, understood as preference misrepresentation, in the light of the main theoretical results focusing on their practical significance. It also reviews some indices measuring the degree of manipulability of choice functions. Moreover, the results on complexity of manipulation as well as on safe manipulability are briefly touched upon

Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXIII [electronic resource] /

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims to support human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This twenty-third issue contains 14 carefully selected and revised contributions.Robustness of Legislative Procedures of the Italian Parliament -- Approval Voting as a Method of Prediction in Political Votings. Case of Polish elections -- The Complexity of Voter Control and Shift Bribery under Parliament Choosing Rules -- National Interests in the European Parliament: Roll Call Vote Analysis -- Voting and Communication when Hiring by Committee -- Power Measures and Public Goods -- Holdout Threats During Wage Bargaining -- Index of implicit power as a measure of reciprocal ownership -- Manipulability Of Voting Procedures: Strategic Voting And Strategic Nomination -- Reflections on the Signifcance of Misrepresenting Preferences -- Fibonacci representations of homogeneous weighted majority games -- Towards a fairness-oriented approach to consensus reaching support under fuzzy preferences and a fuzzy majority via linguistic summaries? -- What Is It That Drives Dynamics: We Don’t Believe in Ghosts, Do We?.These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims to support human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This twenty-third issue contains 14 carefully selected and revised contributions