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Efficient Algorithms for Monroe and CC Rules in Multi-Winner Elections with (Nearly) Structured Preferences

Multiagent Systems 2023-08-01 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We investigate winner determination for two popular proportional representation systems: the Monroe and Chamberlin-Courant (abbrv. CC) systems. Our study focuses on (nearly) single-peaked resp. single-crossing preferences. We show that for single-crossing approval preferences, winner determination of the Monroe rule is polynomial, and for both rules, winner determination mostly admits FPT algorithms with respect to the number of voters to delete to obtain single-peaked or single-crossing preferences. Our results answer some complexity questions from the literature [18, 28, 21].

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@article{arxiv.2307.16864,
  title  = {Efficient Algorithms for Monroe and CC Rules in Multi-Winner Elections with (Nearly) Structured Preferences},
  author = {Jiehua Chen and Christian Hatschka and Sofia Simola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16864},
  year   = {2023}
}

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A conference version appeared in ECAI 2023

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