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In approval voting, individuals vote for all platforms that they find acceptable. In this situation it is natural to ask: When is agreement possible? What conditions guarantee that some fraction of the voters agree on even a single…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Kristen Mazur , Mutiara Sondjaja , Matthew Wright , Carolyn Yarnall

In this paper we study several monotonicity axioms in approval-based multi-winner voting rules. We consider monotonicity with respect to the support received by the winners and also monotonicity in the size of the committee. Monotonicity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Luis Sánchez-Fernández , Jesús A. Fisteus

The winner determination problems of many attractive multi-winner voting rules are NP-complete. However, they often admit polynomial-time algorithms when restricting inputs to be single-peaked. Commonly, such algorithms employ dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dominik Peters

Committee decisions are complicated by a deadline, e.g., the next start of a budget, or the beginning of a semester. In committee hiring decisions, it may be that if no candidate is supported by a strong majority, the default is to hire no…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Marina Bannikova , Lihi Dery , Svetlana Obraztsova , Zinovi Rabinovich , Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

We define a family of runoff rules that work as follows: voters cast approval ballots over candidates; two finalists are selected; and the winner is decided by majority. With approval-type ballots, there are various ways to select the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Théo Delemazure , Jérôme Lang , Jean-François Laslier , Remzi M. Sanver

Aggregating preferences under incomplete or constrained feedback is a fundamental problem in social choice and related domains. While prior work has established strong impossibility results for pairwise comparisons, this paper extends the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Evi Micha , Vasilis Varsamis

Model selection and assessment with incomplete data pose challenges in addition to the ones encountered with complete data. There are two main reasons for this. First, many models describe characteristics of the complete data, in spite of…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-08-28 Geert Verbeke , Geert Molenberghs , Caroline Beunckens

We study the problem of {\em impartial selection}, a topic that lies at the intersection of computational social choice and mechanism design. The goal is to select the most popular individual among a set of community members. The input can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ioannis Caragiannis , George Christodoulou , Nicos Protopapas

In real-world elections where voters cast preference ballots, voters often provide only a partial ranking of the candidates. Despite this empirical reality, prior social choice literature frequently analyzes fairness criteria under the…

General Economics · Economics 2024-08-08 Adam Graham-Squire , Matthew I. Jones , David McCune

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 elections where voters are faced with the challenge of expressing preferences over an extreme number of issues under consideration. This is largely motivated by emerging blockchain governance systems, which include voters with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Georgios Amanatidis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Philip Lazos , Evangelos Markakis , Georgios Papasotiropoulos

Voting rules based on evaluation inputs rather than preference orders have been recently proposed, like majority judgement, range voting or approval voting. Traditionally, probabilistic analysis of voting rules supposes the use of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Antoine Rolland , Jean-Baptiste Aubin , Irène Gannaz , Samuela Leoni

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

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

This work contributes to a foundational question in economic theory: how do individual-level cognitive biases interact with collective choice mechanisms? We study a setting where voters hold intrinsic preference rankings over a set of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-24 Federico Fioravanti , Zoi Terzopoulou

Proportional representation (PR) is one of the central principles in voting. Elegant rules with compelling PR axiomatic properties have the potential to be adopted for several important collective decision making settings. I survey some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Haris Aziz

The ability to measure the satisfaction of (groups of) voters is a crucial prerequisite for formulating proportionality axioms in approval-based participatory budgeting elections. Two common - but very different - ways to measure the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Markus Brill , Stefan Forster , Martin Lackner , Jan Maly , Jannik Peters

Incomplete pairwise comparison matrices offer a natural way of expressing preferences in decision making processes. Although ordinal information is crucial, there is a bias in the literature: cardinal models dominate. Ordinal models usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Luca Faramondi , Gabriele Oliva , Sándor Bozóki

Multiwinner voting rules are used to select a small representative subset of candidates or items from a larger set given the preferences of voters. However, if candidates have sensitive attributes such as gender or ethnicity (when selecting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-20 L. Elisa Celis , Lingxiao Huang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We elicit incomplete preferences over monetary gambles with subjective uncertainty. Subjects rank gambles, and these rankings are used to estimate preferences; payments are based on estimated preferences. About 40\% of subjects express…

General Economics · Economics 2022-10-06 Kirby Nielsen , Luca Rigotti