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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

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

Given a set of agents with approval preferences over each other, we study the task of finding $k$ matchings fairly representing everyone's preferences. We model the problem as an approval-based multiwinner election where the set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Niclas Boehmer , Markus Brill , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

We study two-stage committee elections where voters have dynamic preferences over candidates; at each stage, a committee is chosen under a given voting rule. We are interested in identifying a winning committee for the second stage that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Valentin Zech , Niclas Boehmer , Edith Elkind , Nicholas Teh

In the committee selection problem, the goal is to choose a subset of size $k$ from a set of candidates $C$ that collectively gives the best representation to a set of voters. We consider this problem in Euclidean $d$-space where each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chinmay Sonar , Subhash Suri , Jie Xue

We prove axiomatic characterizations of several important multiwinner rules within the class of approval-based committee choice rules. These are voting rules that return a set of (fixed-size) committees. In particular, we provide axiomatic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Martin Lackner , Piotr Skowron

We consider the following problem in which a given number of items has to be chosen from a predefined set. Each item is described by a vector of attributes and for each attribute there is a desired distribution that the selected set should…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jerome Lang , Piotr Skowron

The Possible-Winner problem asks, given an election where the voters' preferences over the set of candidates is partially specified, whether a distinguished candidate can become a winner. In this work, we consider the computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Batya Kenig

We consider approval-based committee voting, i.e. the setting where each voter approves a subset of candidates, and these votes are then used to select a fixed-size set of winners (committee). We propose a natural axiom for this setting,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Haris Aziz , Markus Brill , Vincent Conitzer , Edith Elkind , Rupert Freeman , Toby Walsh

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),…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yongjie Yang

In the apportionment problem, a fixed number of seats must be distributed among parties in proportion to the number of voters supporting each party. We study a generalization of this setting, in which voters can support multiple parties by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Markus Brill , Paul Gölz , Dominik Peters , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Kai Wilker

We study committee elections from a perspective of finding the most conflicting candidates, that is, candidates that imply the largest amount of conflict, as per voter preferences. By proposing basic axioms to capture this objective, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Théo Delemazure , Łukasz Janeczko , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Stanisław Szufa

Approval voting is widely used for making multi-winner voting decisions. The canonical rule (also called Approval Voting) used in the setting aims to maximize social welfare by selecting candidates with the highest number of approvals. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haris Aziz , Yuhang Guo , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Baharak Rastegari , Mashbat Suzuki

Approval-preferential voting is problematical since it combines two different kinds of information that could by themselves lead to different choices. This article analyses the problem and studies a new proposal to deal with it. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Rosa Camps , Xavier Mora , Laia Saumell

In approval-based committee (ABC) elections, the goal is to select a fixed-size subset of the candidates, a so-called committee, based on the voters' approval ballots over the candidates. One of the most popular classes of ABC voting rules…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chris Dong , Patrick Lederer

Approval voting is a common method of preference aggregation where voters vote by ``approving'' of a subset of candidates and the winner(s) are those who are approved of by the largest number of voters. In approval voting, the degree to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hari Sarang Nathan

This paper is an axiomatic study of consistent approval-based multi-winner rules, i.e., voting rules that select a fixed-size group of candidates based on approval ballots. We introduce the class of counting rules and provide an axiomatic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Martin Lackner , Piotr Skowron

Electing a committee of size k from m alternatives (k < m) is an interesting problem under the multi-winner voting rules. However, very few committee selection rules found in the literature consider the coalitional possibilities among the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-08-08 Ritu Dutta , Rajnish Kumnar , Surajit Borkotokey

We consider spatial voting where candidates are located in the Euclidean $d$-dimensional space, and each voter ranks candidates based on their distance from the voter's ideal point. We explore the case where information about the location…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Aviram Imber , Jonas Israel , Markus Brill , Hadas Shachnai , Benny Kimelfeld

We study the parameterized complexity of winner determination problems for three prevalent $k$-committee selection rules, namely the minimax approval voting (MAV), the proportional approval voting (PAV), and the Chamberlin-Courant's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yongjie Yang , Jianxin Wang