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We study a model of voting with two alternatives in a symmetric environment. We characterize the interim allocation probabilities that can be implemented by a symmetric voting rule. We show that every such interim allocation probabilities…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-04-04 Xu Lang , Debasis Mishra

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 present the core support criterion, a voting criterion satisfied by Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) that is analogous to the Condorcet criterion but reflective of a different majority rule philosophy. Condorcet methods can be thought of as…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-12 Ross Hyman , Deb Otis , Seamus Allen , Greg Dennis

The proportional veto principle, which captures the idea that a candidate vetoed by a large group of voters should not be chosen, has been studied for ranked ballots in single-winner voting. We introduce a version of this principle for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daniel Halpern , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

This paper establishes a complete theoretical foundation for the Hodge-theoretic extension of the Shapley value introduced by Stern and Tettenhorst (2019). We show that a set of five axioms--efficiency, linearity, symmetry, a modified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tongseok Lim

In 2000 Allen Schwenk, using a well-known mathematical model of matchplay tournaments in which the probability of one player beating another in a single match is fixed for each pair of players, showed that the classical single-elimination,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Peter Hegarty , Anders Martinsson , Edvin Wedin

We consider the discrete assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over objects and these objects are allocated to the agents in a fair manner. We use the stochastic dominance relation between fractional or randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Simon Mackenzie , Toby Walsh

We introduce the confident voter model, in which each voter can be in one of two opinions and can additionally have two levels of commitment to an opinion --- confident and unsure. Upon interacting with an agent of a different opinion, a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Volovik , S. Redner

In this note we consider situations of (multidimensional) spatial majority voting. We show that under some assumptions usual in this literature, with an even number of voters if the core of the voting situation is singleton (and in the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-08-16 Anindya Bhattacharya , Francesco Ciardiello

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

How to design fair and (computationally) efficient voting rules is a central challenge in Computational Social Choice. In this paper, we aim at designing efficient algorithms for computing most equitable rules for large classes of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lirong Xia

The margin of victory of an election is a useful measure to capture the robustness of an election outcome. It also plays a crucial role in determining the sample size of various algorithms in post election audit, polling etc. In this work,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Palash Dey , Y. Narahari

This paper considers the ranking problem of candidates for a certain position based on ballot papers filled by voters. We suggest a ranking procedure of alternatives using cooperative game theory methods. For this, it is necessary to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Aleksei Kondratev , Vladimir Mazalov

In this article, we study the effect of vector-valued interventions in votes under a binary voter model, where each voter expresses their vote as a $0-1$ valued random variable to choose between two candidates. We assume that the outcome is…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-17 Manit Paul , Rishideep Roy , Soudeep Deb

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

We consider the problem of whether a given decision model, working with structured data, has individual fairness. Following the work of Dwork, a model is individually biased (or unfair) if there is a pair of valid inputs which are close to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Philips George John , Deepak Vijaykeerthy , Diptikalyan Saha

We study the Possible President problem and the Necessary President problem for Schulze voting, a rule that, due to its many desirable axiomatic properties, is popular in practice. In both problems, we are given an election with the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Katarína Cechlárová , Jörg Rothe , Šimon Schierreich , Ildikó Schlotter

Election results are determined by numerous social factors that affect the formation of opinion of the voters, including the network of interactions between them and the dynamics of opinion influence. In this work we study the result of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Gonzalo Travieso , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

We investigate differences between a simple Dominance Principle applied to sums of fair prices for variables and dominance applied to sums of forecasts for variables scored by proper scoring rules. In particular, we consider differences…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-27 M. J. Schervish , Teddy Seidenfeld , J. B. Kadane

Each voter $i \in I$ has $\alpha_i$ cards that (s)he distributes among the candidates $a \in A$ as a measure of approval. One (or several) candidate(s) who received the maximum number of cards is (are) elected. We provide polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Endre Boros , Ondrej Cepek , Vladimir Gurvich , Kazuhisa Makino