CONS∃NSUS
CONS∃NSUS is a public-domain software package.
CONS∃NSUS is developed to carry out a behavioral social choice analysis, to answer several questions: What types of preferential data do the sources provide? How do the observed data relate to latent (unobservable) preferences? Which mathematical consensus algorithms are of interest? Given a set of expressed preferences, does a unique consensus option exist? Does the consensus outcome depend on the aggregation method? Does the consensus outcome depend on assumptions made in the analysis? How robust is the consensus outcome to uncertainties in the data? How does the consensus outcome depend on the number of sources probed? We provide a new public-domain software package, CONS∃NSUS. This program makes it easy for scholars and practitioners to compute, evaluate, and compare the results from multiple consensus procedures.
This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants CCF # 12-16016 and SES # 08-20009 (PI: M. Regenwetter) and the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PI: A. Popova).
In order to use CONS∃NSUS you will need both an MCR installer and a compiled version of the CONS∃NSUS software program, both of which can be found below. First, download and install the MCR installer. The MCR installer only needs to be installed once on your computer. And it must be installed on all platforms. Second, download a compiled version of CONS∃NSUS. Whenever you would like to start a new instance of CONS∃NSUS, simply open this CONS∃NSUS file.
Tutorial explains the controls and conventions of the program.
Supplementary input and output files used in the Tutorial can be downloaded below.
INPUT FILES
Ballots from American Psychological Association presidential election 1980:
- Complete APA data sets, 1998-2009.
OUTPUT FILES
- General output example (“illustrative example” from the User Manual).
- APA 1980 output example (from the User Manual).
- Impartial Culture and Impartial Anonymous Culture simulation outcomes, 5 candidates, 10 thousand repetitions.
If publishing results generated by CONS∃NSUS, please include the following citation:
Consensus formation in organizations: Hunting for the social choice conundrum in American Psychological Association elections. Popov, S.V., Popova, A., Regenwetter, M.
Decision, Forthcoming 2014
and please acknowledge that:
CONS∃NSUS was developed with support by the National Science Foundation, Grants CCF # 12-16016 and SES # 08-20009 (PI: Michel Regenwetter) and the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PI: A. Popova).