Opinion Diffusion and Campaigning on Society Graphs
Multiagent Systems
2020-10-05 v1
Abstract
We study the effects of campaigning, where the society is partitioned into voter clusters and a diffusion process propagates opinions in a network connecting the clusters. Our model is very powerful and can incorporate many campaigning actions, various partitions of the society into clusters, and very general diffusion processes. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that computing the cheapest campaign for rigging a given election can usually be done efficiently, even with arbitrarily-many voters. Moreover, we report on certain computational simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.00651,
title = {Opinion Diffusion and Campaigning on Society Graphs},
author = {Piotr Faliszewski and Rica Gonen and Martin Koutecký and Nimrod Talmon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00651},
year = {2020}
}