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Many hard computational social choice problems are known to become tractable when voters' preferences belong to a restricted domain, such as those of single-peaked or single-crossing preferences. However, to date, all algorithmic results of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Edith Elkind , Martin Lackner

Most work on manipulation assumes that all preferences are known to the manipulators. However, in many settings elections are open and sequential, and manipulators may know the already cast votes but may not know the future votes. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Joerg Rothe

Most work on manipulation assumes that all preferences are known to the manipulators. However, in many settings elections are open and sequential, and manipulators may know the already cast votes but may not know the future votes. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Joerg Rothe

Shortlisting of candidates--selecting a group of "best" candidates--is a special case of multiwinner elections. We provide the first in-depth study of the computational complexity of strategic voting for shortlisting based on the perhaps…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

The goal of multi-winner elections is to choose a fixed-size committee based on voters' preferences. An important concern in this setting is representation: large groups of voters with cohesive preferences should be adequately represented…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Luis Sánchez-Fernández , Edith Elkind , Martin Lackner , Norberto Fernández , Jesús A. Fisteus , Pablo Basanta Val , Piotr Skowron

Social choice is replete with various settings including single-winner voting, multi-winner voting, probabilistic voting, multiple referenda, and public decision making. We study a general model of social choice called Sub-Committee Voting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Haris Aziz , Barton E. Lee

We consider elections where both voters and candidates can be associated with points in a metric space and voters prefer candidates that are closer to those that are farther away. It is often assumed that the optimal candidate is the one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Grzegorz Pierczyński , Piotr Skowron

We give a simple, generic conformal prediction method for sequential prediction that achieves target empirical coverage guarantees against adversarially chosen data. It is computationally lightweight -- comparable to split conformal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Osbert Bastani , Varun Gupta , Christopher Jung , Georgy Noarov , Ramya Ramalingam , Aaron Roth

We investigate how robust approval-based multiwinner voting rules are to small perturbations in the votes. In particular, we consider the extent to which a committee can change after we add/remove/swap one approval, and we consider the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Piotr Faliszewski , Grzegorz Gawron , Bartosz Kusek

Multiwinner voting captures a wide variety of settings, from parliamentary elections in democratic systems to product placement in online shopping platforms. There is a large body of work dealing with axiomatic characterizations,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Edith Elkind , Svetlana Obraztsova , Nicholas Teh

We consider a spatial voting model where both candidates and voters are positioned in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, and each voter ranks candidates based on their proximity to the voter's ideal point. We focus on the scenario where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hadas Shachnai , Rotem Shavitt , Andreas Wiese

The paper considers the problem of finding the number of dominant voters in two-level voting procedures. At the first stage, voting is conducted among local groups of voters, and at the second stage, the results are aggregated to form a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 N. I. Shushko , D. V. Lemtyuzhnikova

Plurality and approval voting are two well-known voting systems with different strengths and weaknesses. In this paper we consider a new voting system we call beta(k) which allows voters to select a single first-choice candidate and approve…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-06-02 Peter Butler , Jerry Lin

We study the selection of agents based on mutual nominations, a theoretical problem with many applications from committee selection to AI alignment. As agents both select and are selected, they may be incentivized to misrepresent their true…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Javier Cembrano , Felix Fischer , Max Klimm

The Possible Winner (PW) problem, a fundamental algorithmic problem in computational social choice, concerns elections where voters express only partial preferences between candidates. Via a sequence of investigations, a complete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Vishal Chakraborty , Phokion G. Kolaitis

Assume $k$ candidates need to be selected. The candidates appear over time. Each time one appears, it must be immediately selected or rejected -- a decision that is made by a group of individuals through voting. Assume the voters use…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Virginie Do , Matthieu Hervouin , Jérôme Lang , Piotr Skowron

When voter preferences are known in an incomplete (partial) manner, winner determination is commonly treated as the identification of the necessary and possible winners; these are the candidates who win in all completions or at least one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Aviram Imber , Benny Kimelfeld

In multiagent settings where the agents have different preferences, preference aggregation is a central issue. Voting is a general method for preference aggregation, but seminal results have shown that all general voting protocols are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Vincent Conitzer , Tuomas Sandholm

We study strategic candidate nomination by parties in elections decided by Plurality voting. Each party selects a nominee before the election, and the winner is chosen from the nominated candidates based on the voters' preferences. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Piotr Faliszewski , Stanislaw Kazmierowski , Grzegorz Lisowski , Ildiko Schlotter , Paolo Turrini

An important question in elections is the determine whether a candidate can be a winner when some votes are absent. We study this determining winner with the absent votes (WAV) problem when the votes are top-truncated. We show that the WAV…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Qishen Han , Amélie Marian , Lirong Xia