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Approximation and Hardness of Shift-Bribery

Computer Science and Game Theory 2019-08-29 v1

Abstract

In the Shift-Bribery problem we are given an election, a preferred candidate, and the costs of shifting this preferred candidate up the voters' preference orders. The goal is to find such a set of shifts that ensures that the preferred candidate wins the election. We give the first polynomial-time approximation scheme for the Shift-Bribery problem for the case of positional scoring rules, and for the Copeland rule we show strong inapproximability results.

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@article{arxiv.1908.10562,
  title  = {Approximation and Hardness of Shift-Bribery},
  author = {Piotr Faliszewski and Pasin Manurangsi and Krzysztof Sornat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10562},
  year   = {2019}
}

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An extended abstract of this work appears in AAAI'19

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