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We initiate the study of distortion in stable matching. Concretely, we aim to design algorithms that have limited access to the agents' cardinal preferences and compute stable matchings of high quality with respect to some aggregate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis

In recent years, in an effort to promote fairness in the election process, a wide variety of techniques and metrics have been proposed to determine whether a map is a partisan gerrymander. The most accessible measures, requiring easily…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-11 Thomas Ratliff , Stephanie Somersille , Ellen Veomett

In this paper we consider the filtering of partially observed multi-dimensional diffusion processes that are observed regularly at discrete times. We assume that, for numerical reasons, one has to time-discretize the diffusion process which…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Ajay Jasra , Mohamed Maama , Hernando Ombao

An alternative voting scheme is proposed to fill the democratic gap between a president elected democratically via universal suffrage (deterministic outcome, the actual majority decides), and a president elected by one person randomly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-11 Serge Galam

Collective adaptation, whether in innovation adoption, pro-environmental or organizational change, emerges from the interplay between individual decisions and social influence. Agent-based modeling provides a useful tool for studying such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 Angelika Abramiuk-Szurlej , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

Multidimensional fitting (MDF) method is a multivariate data analysis method recently developed and based on the fitting of distances. Two matrices are available: one contains the coordinates of the points and the second contains the…

We address the problem of sharing risk among agents with preferences modelled by a general class of comonotonic additive and law-based functionals that need not be either monotone or convex. Such functionals are called distortion…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-12 Jean-Gabriel Lauzier , Liyuan Lin , Ruodu Wang

In many quantization problems, the distortion function is given by the Euclidean metric to measure the distance of a source sample to any given reproduction point of the quantizer. We will in this work regard distortion functions, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jun Guo , Philipp Walk , Hamid Jafarkhani

Despite extensive theoretical research on proportionality in approval-based multiwinner voting, its impact on which committees and candidates can be selected in practice remains poorly understood. We address this gap by (i) analyzing the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Niclas Boehmer , Lara Glessen , Jannik Peters

We introduce two models of multiwinner elections with approval preferences and labelled candidates that take the committee's diversity into account. One model aims to find a committee with maximal diversity given a scoring function (e.g. of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Paula Böhm , Robert Bredereck , Till Fluschnik

A popular formalism for multiagent control applies tools from game theory, casting a multiagent decision problem as a cooperation-style game in which individual agents make local choices to optimize their own local utility functions in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 David Grimsman , Joshua H. Seaton , Jason R. Marden , Philip N. Brown

Election rules are formal processes that aggregate voters preferences, typically to select a single candidate, called the winner. Most of the election rules studied in the literature require the voters to rank the candidates from the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Matthias Bentert , Piotr Skowron

The Adjusted Winner (AW) method is a fundamental procedure for the fair division of indivisible resources between two agents. However, its reliance on splitting resources can lead to practical complications. To address this limitation, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Robert Bredereck , Bin Sun , Eyal Briman , Nimrod Talmon

Diversity is an important principle in data selection and summarization, facility location, and recommendation systems. Our work focuses on maximizing diversity in data selection, while offering fairness guarantees. In particular, we offer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zafeiria Moumoulidou , Andrew McGregor , Alexandra Meliou

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, that is defined to be the maximum value that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

Multi-winner approval elections are seen in a variety of settings ranging from academic societies and associations to public elections. In such elections, it is often the case that ballot-length restrictions are enforced; that is, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Barton E. Lee

We study a version of the metric facility location problem (or, equivalently, variants of the committee selection problem) in which we must choose $k$ facilities in an arbitrary metric space to serve some set of clients $C$. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yue Han , Elliot Anshelevich

We study a model of temporal voting where there is a fixed time horizon, and at each round the voters report their preferences over the available candidates and a single candidate is selected. Prior work has adapted popular notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Edith Elkind , Svetlana Obraztsova , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

This paper studies some basic problems in a multiple-object auction model using methodologies from theoretical computer science. We are especially concerned with situations where an adversary bidder knows the bidding algorithms of all the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Kao , Junfeng Qi , Lei Tan

Diversity maximization problem is a well-studied problem where the goal is to find $k$ diverse items. Fair diversity maximization aims to select a diverse subset of $k$ items from a large dataset, while requiring that each group of items be…

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