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The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.

The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.

In this Chapter, we created a Swing based application that allows users to prepare sequences for BLAST searches by performing simple formatting tasks such as conversion into the Fasta format and determining the sequence type and length. Along the way we introduced how to write code to respond to events taking place in response to user initiated actions. We created the GUI elements and wrote the code that enables the elements to respond to the sequence type and present only the valid BLAST options that are available for the entered sequence type. The rationale for building these features into the application was to make it more functional and to simplify its use for the end-users, given the many potentially confusing parameters a user has to supply when performing a search operation. In the next Chapter, we will extend the SwingBlast application to actually perform the BLAST search operation.

In this Chapter, we created a Swing based application that allows users to prepare sequences for BLAST searches by performing simple formatting tasks such as conversion into the Fasta format and determining the sequence type and length. Along the way we introduced how to write code to respond to events taking place in response to user initiated actions. We created the GUI elements and wrote the code that enables the elements to respond to the sequence type and present only the valid BLAST options that are available for the entered sequence type. The rationale for building these features into the application was to make it more functional and to simplify its use for the end-users, given the many potentially confusing parameters a user has to supply when performing a search operation. In the next Chapter, we will extend the SwingBlast application to actually perform the BLAST search operation.

The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.

The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.

The is a positional voting procedure fairly often applied in non-political choice settings. It has a usual mixture of good and bad theoretical properties. It is monotonic and consistent and excludes the election of an eventual Condorcet loser. It, however, does not necessarily choose the Condorcet winner when one exists. Its strategic properties have also been found unattractive. Some modifications to it have therefore been proposed, notably Nanson’s method. We also compare the BC with two of its recent modifications, the and the . It turns out that, although similar in spirit to and do not share one of the former’s main justifications: the exclusion of an eventual Condorcet loser. It is also shown that tends to lead to more majoritarian outcomes than . We also touch upon the matrix vote which enables the voter to express his/her views on both candidates and positions simultaneously.

In this Chapter, we created a Swing based application that allows users to prepare sequences for BLAST searches by performing simple formatting tasks such as conversion into the Fasta format and determining the sequence type and length. Along the way we introduced how to write code to respond to events taking place in response to user initiated actions. We created the GUI elements and wrote the code that enables the elements to respond to the sequence type and present only the valid BLAST options that are available for the entered sequence type. The rationale for building these features into the application was to make it more functional and to simplify its use for the end-users, given the many potentially confusing parameters a user has to supply when performing a search operation. In the next Chapter, we will extend the SwingBlast application to actually perform the BLAST search operation.

The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.

The birth (or should we say the re-birth) of voting theory at the end of 18th century in France exemplifies the victory of Condorcet over Borda. This victory was confirmed by the rebirth of voting theory in the 1940s with the magisterial works of Arrow and Black. Only since publications by Dummett, Young and Saari, did Borda systems recover their importance. In this chapter, I will explain how and why this happened. I am grateful to Peter Emerson and Louis Aim. Fono for helpful comments.