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Given the final ranking of a competition, how should the total prize endowment be allocated among the competitors? We study consistent prize allocation rules satisfying elementary solidarity and fairness principles. In particular, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Bas J. Dietzenbacher , Aleksei Y. Kondratev

Proportionality is an attractive fairness concept that has been applied to a range of problems including the facility location problem, a classic problem in social choice. In our work, we propose a concept called Strong Proportionality,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Haris Aziz , Alexander Lam , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

The issue of fairness in AI arises from discriminatory practices in applications like job recommendations and risk assessments, emphasising the need for algorithms that do not discriminate based on group characteristics. This concern is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Fengjuan Jia , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov

Many-to-many matching with contracts is studied in the framework of revealed preferences. All preferences are described by choice functions that satisfy natural conditions. Under a no-externality assumption individual preferences can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Daniel Lehmann

Discrimination in selection problems such as hiring or college admission is often explained by implicit bias from the decision maker against disadvantaged demographic groups. In this paper, we consider a model where the decision maker…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Vitalii Emelianov , Nicolas Gast , Krishna P. Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau

In an approval-based committee election, the goal is to select a committee consisting of $k$ out of $m$ candidates, based on $n$ voters who each approve an arbitrary number of the candidates. The core of such an election consists of all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Dominik Peters

We study the election of sequences of committees, where in each of $\tau$ levels (e.g. modeling points in time) a committee consisting of $k$ candidates from a common set of $m$ candidates is selected. For each level, each of $n$ agents…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Eva Michelle Deltl , Till Fluschnik , Robert Bredereck

We consider a model where a subset of candidates must be selected based on voter preferences, subject to general constraints that specify which subsets are feasible. This model generalizes committee elections with diversity constraints,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Piotr Skowron

We study a setting where tickets for an experience are allocated by lottery. Each agent belongs to a group, and a group is successful if and only if its members receive enough tickets for everyone. A lottery is efficient if it maximizes the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Nick Arnosti , Carlos Bonet

We present a new data-driven model of fairness that, unlike existing static definitions of individual or group fairness is guided by the unfairness complaints received by the system. Our model supports multiple fairness criteria and takes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Pranjal Awasthi , Corinna Cortes , Yishay Mansour , Mehryar Mohri

A method is given for quantitatively rating the social acceptance of different options which are the matter of a complete preferential vote. Completeness means that every voter expresses a comparison (a preference or a tie) about each pair…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Rosa Camps , Xavier Mora , Laia Saumell

Coalition formation is concerned with the question of how to partition a set of agents into disjoint coalitions according to their preferences. Deviating from most of the previous work, we consider an online variant of the problem, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Martin Bullinger , René Romen

In Machine Learning, an accepted definition of fairness of a decision taken by a classifier is that it should not depend on protected features, such as gender. Unfortunately, when constraints exist between features, such dependencies can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Martin C. Cooper , Imane Bousdira

There has been much recent work on multiwinner voting systems. However, sometimes a committee is highly structured, and if we want to vote for such a committee, our voting method should be more structured as well. We consider committees…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Karl-Dieter Crisman

We study the mechanism design problem of allocating a set of indivisible items without monetary transfers. Despite the vast literature on this very standard model, it still remains unclear how do truthful mechanisms look like. We focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , George Christodoulou , Evangelos Markakis

In this paper we consider multi-agent coalitional games with uncertain value functions for which we establish distribution-free guarantees on the probability of allocation stability, i.e., agents do not have incentives to defect from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-24 George Pantazis , Filippo Fabiani , Filiberto Fele , Kostas Margellos

Over the last few years, researchers have put significant effort into understanding of the notion of proportional representation in committee election. In particular, recently they have proposed the notion of proportionality degree. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Łukasz Janeczko , Piotr Faliszewski

A recent work by Hern\'andez et al. introduced a networked voting rule supported by a trust-based social network, where indications of possible representatives were based on individuals opinions. Individual contributions went beyond a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-01 Alexis R. Hernandez , Carlos Gracia-Lazaro , Edgardo Brigatti , Yamir Moreno

We conjecture that Borda count is the ranked choice voting method that best preserves the outcome of an election with randomly corrupted votes, among all fair voting methods with small influences satisfying the Condorcet Loser Criterion.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Steven Heilman

Ranking is a ubiquitous method for focusing the attention of human evaluators on a manageable subset of options. Its use as part of human decision-making processes ranges from surfacing potentially relevant products on an e-commerce site to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Richa Rastogi , Thorsten Joachims