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Complexity of Manipulating and Controlling Approval-Based Multiwinner Voting

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-09-06 v2

Abstract

We investigate the complexity of several manipulation and control problems under numerous prevalent approval-based multiwinner voting rules. Particularly, the rules we study include approval voting (AV), satisfaction approval voting (SAV), net-satisfaction approval voting (NSAV), proportional approval voting (PAV), approval-based Chamberlin-Courant voting (ABCCV), minimax approval voting (MAV), etc. We show that these rules generally resist the strategic types scrutinized in the paper, with only a few exceptions. In addition, we also obtain many fixed-parameter tractability results for these problems with respect to several natural parameters, and derive polynomial-time algorithms for certain special cases.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11291,
  title  = {Complexity of Manipulating and Controlling Approval-Based Multiwinner Voting},
  author = {Yongjie Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11291},
  year   = {2023}
}

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45pages, 1figure, full version of a paper at IJCAI 2019

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:46:44.748Z