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Fairness in multiwinner elections is studied in varying contexts. For instance, diversity of candidates and representation of voters are both separately termed as being fair. A common denominator to ensure fairness across all such contexts…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Kunal Relia

We consider the notions of agreement, diversity, and polarization in ordinal elections (that is, in elections where voters rank the candidates). While (computational) social choice offers good measures of agreement between the voters, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Piotr Faliszewski , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Krzysztof Sornat , Stanisław Szufa , Tomasz Wąs

We study a many-to-one matching model inspired by school choice, where schools evaluate applicants using multiple rankings rather than a single priority order. We model each school's evaluation with social choice criteria to reflect the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Haoyu Song , Thanh Nguyen , Young-san Lin

An index is a function that given an election outputs a value between 0 and 1, indicating the extent to which this election has a particular feature. We seek indices that capture agreement, diversity, and polarization among voters in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Piotr Faliszewski , Jitka Mertlová , Krzysztof Sornat , Stanisław Szufa , Tomasz Wąs

The way pages are ranked in search results influences whether the users of search engines are exposed to more homogeneous, or rather to more diverse viewpoints. However, this viewpoint diversity is not trivial to assess. In this paper we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tim Draws , Nava Tintarev , Ujwal Gadiraju , Alessandro Bozzon , Benjamin Timmermans

We consider the problem of electing a committee of $k$ candidates, subject to some constraints as to what this committee is supposed to look like. In our framework, the candidates are given labels as an abstraction of a politician's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Egor Ianovski

We study the committee selection problem in the canonical impartial culture model with a large number of voters and an even larger candidate set. Here, each voter independently reports a uniformly random preference order over the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yifan Lin , Shenyu Qin , Kangning Wang , Lirong Xia

Collective intelligence is the ability of a group to perform more effectively than any individual alone. Diversity among group members is a key condition for the emergence of collective intelligence, but maintaining diversity is challenging…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Richard P. Mann , Dirk Helbing

We study the model of metric voting proposed by Feldman et al. [2020]. In this model, experts and candidates are located in a metric space, and each candidate possesses a quality that is independent of her location. An expert evaluates each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yang Cai , Eric Xue

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

Many democratic societies use district-based elections, where the region under consideration is geographically divided into districts and a representative is chosen for each district based on the preferences of the electors who reside…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Adway Mitra

When selecting committees based on preferences of voters, a variety of different criteria can be considered. Two natural objectives are maximizing the utilitarian welfare (the sum of voters' utilities) and coverage (the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Markus Brill , Jannik Peters

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Florian Adriaens , Nikolaj Tatti

Scoring systems, as a type of predictive model, have significant advantages in interpretability and transparency and facilitate quick decision-making. As such, scoring systems have been extensively used in a wide variety of industries such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yi Yang , Ying Wu , Mei Li , Xiangyu Chang , Yong Tan

As the use of online platforms continues to grow across all demographics, users often express a desire to feel represented in the content. To improve representation in search results and recommendations, we introduce end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Pedro Silva , Bhawna Juneja , Shloka Desai , Ashudeep Singh , Nadia Fawaz

Diversity represents a key concept in ecology, and there are various methods of assessing it. The multitude of diversity indices are quite puzzling and sometimes difficult to compute for a large volume of data. This paper promotes a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-15 Ciprian Palaghianu

Diversity indices have been traditionally used to capture the biodiversity of ecosystems by measuring the effective number of species or groups of species. In contrast to abundance, which is correlated with the amount of data available,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Rafael C. Carrasco , Gustavo Candela , Manuel Marco-Such

We study the election control problem with multi-votes, where each voter can present a single vote according different views (or layers, we use "layer" to represent "view"). For example, according to the attributes of candidates, such as:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fengbo Wang , Aizhong Zhou , Jianliang Xu

We propose a new method for analyzing a set of parameters in a multiple criteria ranking method. Unlike the existing techniques, we do not use any optimization technique, instead incorporating and extending a Segmenting Description…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Milosz Kadzinski , Jan Badura , Jose Rui Figueira

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