Abstract: A method for eliciting and aggregating truthful preferences of respondents, with steps of assigning a currency budget to a respondent and generating a user interface. The user interface: displays budgets for each respondent; displays choices among alternative outcomes for each respondent and a method for allocating votes among options by paying according to a quadratic function; displays the outcome of the voting for each respondent; enables a third party to select and contact respondents; enables the third party to observe voting choices and final voting outcomes; and enables the third party to control budgets and voting options.

Abstract: A computerized raffle system provides user interface that presents market conditions and enables the market participants to allocate and re-allocate a market resource among one or more raffles of a computerized raffle system. Such a user interface allows the market participants to determine the allocation in light of the strength of their personal preferences, thereby facilitating efficient resource allocation without requiring the use of money. Presentation of the market conditions via the user interface can be choreographed by the computerized raffle system to expedite the convergence of congestion of the market to a state of equilibrium. The computerized raffle system can also send alerts to market participants when certain conditions are met. Once the congestion of the market has converged to a state of equilibrium, the computerized raffle system can distribute goods between market participants based upon the final allocation of market resource.

Abstract: A method for eliciting and aggregating truthful preferences of respondents, with steps of assigning a currency budget to a respondent and generating a user interface. The user interface: displays budgets for each respondent; displays choices among alternative outcomes for each respondent and a method for allocating votes among options by paying according to a quadratic function; displays the outcome of the voting for each respondent; enables a third party to select and contact respondents; enables the third party to observe voting choices and final voting outcomes; and enables the third party to control budgets and voting options.

Abstract: A method for eliciting and aggregating truthful preferences of respondents, with steps of assigning a currency budget to a respondent and generating a user interface. The user interface: displays budgets for each respondent; displays choices among alternative outcomes for each respondent and a method for allocating votes among options by paying according to a quadratic function; displays the outcome of the voting for each respondent; enables a third party to select and contact respondents; enables the third party to observe voting choices and final voting outcomes; and enables the third party to control budgets and voting options.