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Agentic AI systems increasingly execute consequential actions on behalf of human principals, delegating tasks through multi-step chains of autonomous agents. No existing standard addresses a fundamental accountability gap: verifying that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Asiri Dalugoda

We provide novel simple representations of strategy-proof voting rules when voters have uni-dimensional single-peaked preferences (as well as multi-dimensional separable preferences). The analysis recovers, links and unifies existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Andrew Jennings , Rida Laraki , Clemens Puppe , Estelle Varloot

Collaborating teams of robots show promise due in their ability to complete missions more efficiently and with improved robustness, attributes that are particularly useful for systems operating in marine environments. A key issue is how to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tyler M. Paine , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Michael R. Benjamin

This work studies a dynamic mechanism design problem in which a principal delegates decision makings to a group of privately-informed agents without the monetary transfer or burning. We consider that the principal privately possesses…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

A principal designs an algorithm that generates a publicly observable prediction of a binary state. She must decide whether to act directly based on the prediction or to delegate the decision to an agent with private information but…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-22 Ruqing Xu

Democratic processes increasingly aim to integrate large-scale voting with face-to-face deliberation, addressing the challenge of reconciling individual preferences with collective decision-making. This work introduces new methods that use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Joshua C. Yang , Fynn Bachmann

Delegation covers a broad class of problems in which a principal doesn't have the resources or expertise necessary to complete a task by themselves, so they delegate the task to an agent whose interests may not be aligned with their own.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Curtis Bechtel , Shaddin Dughmi

The major finding, of this article, is an ensemble method, but more exactly, a novel, better ranked voting system (and other variations of it), that aims to solve the problem of finding the best candidate to represent the voters. We have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Gabriel-Claudiu Grama

Participatory budgeting is one of the exciting developments in deliberative grassroots democracy. We concentrate on approval elections and propose proportional representation axioms in participatory budgeting, by generalizing relevant…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Haris Aziz , Barton Lee , Nimrod Talmon

In delegation problems, a principal does not have the resources necessary to complete a particular task, so they delegate the task to an untrusted agent whose interests may differ from their own. Given any family of such problems and space…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Curtis Bechtel , Shaddin Dughmi , Neel Patel

The Coalitional Manipulation problem has been studied extensively in the literature for many voting rules. However, most studies have focused on the complete information setting, wherein the manipulators know the votes of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra , Y. Narahari

Cooperation in the form of vote trading, also known as logrolling, is central for law-making processes, shaping the development of democratic societies. Empirical evidence of logrolling is scarce and limited to highly specific situations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-07 Omar A. Guerrero , Ulrich Matter

To make a joint decision, agents (or voters) are often required to provide their preferences as linear orders. To determine a winner, the given linear orders can be aggregated according to a voting protocol. However, in realistic settings,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-05-03 Nadja Betzler , Britta Dorn

Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, in which randomly-interacting agents with little computational power cooperate to jointly perform computational tasks. Inspired by developments in molecular computation, and…

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A fundamental problem in distributed computing is the task of cooperatively executing a given set of $t$ tasks by $p$ processors where the communication medium is dynamic and subject to failures. The dynamics of the communication medium…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Chadi Kari , Alexander Russell , Narasimha Shashidhar

AI agents are able to tackle increasingly complex tasks. To achieve more ambitious goals, AI agents need to be able to meaningfully decompose problems into manageable sub-components, and safely delegate their completion across to other AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nenad Tomašev , Matija Franklin , Simon Osindero

Designing private voting rules is an important and pressing problem for trustworthy democracy. In this paper, under the framework of differential privacy, we propose a novel famliy of randomized voting rules based on the well-known…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhechen Li , Ao Liu , Lirong Xia , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

In this paper we extend the principle of proportional representation to rankings. We consider the setting where alternatives need to be ranked based on approval preferences. In this setting, proportional representation requires that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Piotr Skowron , Martin Lackner , Markus Brill , Dominik Peters , Edith Elkind

Voting algorithms have been widely used as consensus protocols in the realization of fault-tolerant systems. These algorithms are best suited for distributed systems of nodes with low computational power or heterogeneous networks, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Sebastian Müller , Andreas Penzkofer , Darcy Camargo , Olivia Saa

In citizens' assemblies, a group of constituents is randomly selected to weigh in on policy issues. We study a two-stage sampling problem faced by practitioners in countries such as Germany, in which constituents' contact information is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Paul Gölz , Jan Maly , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Markus Utke , Philipp C. Verpoort