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We consider linear orders of finite alternatives constructed by aggregating individual preferences. Specifically, we focus on linear orders that respect modified collective preference relations derived from supermajority rules, where…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-01 Yasunori Okumura

Complexity of the problem of choosing among uncertain acts is a salient feature of many of the environments in which departures from expected utility theory are observed. I propose and axiomatize a model of choice under uncertainty in which…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-10-17 Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

A principled approach to cyclicality and intransitivity in paired comparison data is developed. The proposed methodology enables more precise estimation of the underlying preference profile and facilitates the identification of all cyclic…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-08 Rahul Singh , Ori Davidov

We study a two-alternative voting game where voters' preferences depend on an unobservable world state and each voter receives a private signal correlated to the true world state. We consider the collective decision when voters can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiaotie Deng , Biaoshuai Tao , Ying Wang

Proportional ranking rules aggregate approval-style preferences of agents into a collective ranking such that groups of agents with similar preferences are adequately represented. Motivated by the application of live Q&A platforms, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jonas Israel , Markus Brill

Emerging methods for participatory algorithm design have proposed collecting and aggregating individual stakeholder preferences to create algorithmic systems that account for those stakeholders' values. Using algorithmic student assignment…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Samantha Robertson , Niloufar Salehi

We study mechanism which operate on ordinal preference information (i.e., rank ordered lists of alternatives) on the full domain of weak preferences that admits indifferences. We present a novel decomposition of strategyproofness into three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Timo Mennle , Sven Seuken

In this paper, we take a statistical decision-theoretic viewpoint on social choice, putting a focus on the decision to be made on behalf of a system of agents. In our framework, we are given a statistical ranking model, a decision space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Hossein Azari Soufiani , David C. Parkes , Lirong Xia

May's classical theorem states that in a single-winner choose-one voting system with just two candidates, majority rule is the only social choice function satisfying anonimity, neutrality and positive responsiveness axiom. Anonimity and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-23 Mateusz Krukowski

The literature on judgment aggregation is moving from studying impossibility results regarding aggregation rules towards studying specific judgment aggregation rules. Here we give a structured list of most rules that have been proposed and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Jerôme Lang , Gabriella Pigozzi , Marija Slavkovik , Leendert van der Torre , Srdjan Vesic

We consider a model where an agent is must choose between alternatives that each provide only an imprecise description of the world (e.g. linguistic expressions). The set of alternatives is closed under logical conjunction and disjunction,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-09-11 Evan Piermont , Marcus Pivato

Borgs et al. [2016] investigated essential requirements for communities in preference networks. They defined six axioms on community functions, i.e., community detection rules. Though having elegant properties, the practicality of this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Gang Zeng , Yuyi Wang , Juhua Pu , Xingwu Liu , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

This paper uncovers tight bounds on the number of preferences permissible in identified random utility models. We show that as the number of alternatives in a discrete choice model becomes large, the fraction of preferences admissible in an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-03 Christopher P. Chambers , Christopher Turansick

Platforms for online civic participation rely heavily on methods for condensing thousands of comments into a relevant handful, based on whether participants agree or disagree with them. These methods should guarantee fair representation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Daniel Halpern , Gregory Kehne , Ariel D. Procaccia , Jamie Tucker-Foltz , Manuel Wüthrich

We consider the problem of aggregation of incomplete preferences represented by arbitrary binary relations or incomplete paired comparison matrices. For a number of indirect scoring procedures we examine whether or not they satisfy the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Pavel Chebotarev , Elena Shamis

Voting rules may implement the will of the society when all eligible voters vote, and only them. However, they may fail to do so when sybil (fake or duplicate) votes are present and when only some honest (non sybil) voters actively…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Reshef Meir , Gal Shahaf , Ehud Shapiro , Nimrod Talmon

Two characterizations of the whole class of strategy-proof aggregation rules on rich domains of locally unimodal preorders in finite median join-semilattices are provided. In particular, it is shown that such a class consists precisely of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-08-29 Ernesto Savaglio , Stefano Vannucci

This paper studies two-sided many-to-one matching in which firms have complementary preferences. We show that stable matchings exist under a balancedness condition that rules out a specific type of odd-length cycles formed by firms'…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-17 Chao Huang

An electorate with fully-ranked innate preferences casts approval votes over a finite set of alternatives. As a result, only partial information about the true preferences is revealed to the voting authorities. In an effort to understand…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Andrei Constantinescu , Roger Wattenhofer

We consider classes of non-manipulable social choice functions with range of cardinality at most two within a set of at least two alternatives. We provide the functional form for each of the classes we consider. This functional form is a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-28 Achille Basile , K. P. S. Bhaskara Rao , Surekha Rao