Multi-Winner Voting with Approval Preferences
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-09015-8 (ISBN)
What is the best way to select a set of candidates for a shortlist, for an executive committee, or for product recommendations? Multi-winner voting is the process of selecting a fixed-size set of candidates based on the preferences expressed by the voters. A wide variety of decision processes in settings ranging from politics (parliamentary elections) to the design of modern computer applications (collaborative filtering, dynamic Q&A platforms, diversity in search results, etc.) share the problem of identifying a representative subset of alternatives. The study of multi-winner voting provides the principled analysis of this task.
Approval-based committee voting rules (in short: ABC rules) are multi-winner voting rules particularly suitable for practical use. Their usability is founded on the straightforward form in which the voters can express preferences: voters simply have to differentiate between approved and disapproved candidates. Proposals for ABC rules are numerous, some dating back to the late 19th century while others have been introduced only very recently. This book explains and discusses these rules, highlighting their individual strengths and weaknesses. With the help of this book, the reader will be able to choose a suitable ABC voting rule in a principled fashion, participate in, and be up to date with the ongoing research on this topic.
Martin Lackner works on artificial intelligence, specifically on computational social choice. His research deals with fundamental questions about fair collective decision making and how algorithms can support such decisions. Currently, he is principal investigator of the project "Algorithms for Sustainable Group Decision Making" at TU Wien. Before that, he was holding a postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Oxford. He obtained his doctoral degree from TU Wien and has published over 50 papers at top artificial intelligence and algorithms venues (and also in economics and philosophy journals). Piotr Skowron is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. He obtained his PhD from the University of Warsaw, followed by a postdoc position at the University of Oxford and a Humboldt fellowship for postdoctoral researchers at TU Berlin. His research mainly concerns the topic of computational social choice, specifically committee elections. His work links various ideas from computational social choice, game theory, resource allocation, and approximation algorithms. For his contribution to the literature on committee elections, he won the 2020 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. He has published more than 70 articles and conference papers in the top venues on algorithmic game theory and artificial intelligence.
Approval-Based Committee Voting.- Dramatis Personae: ABC Rules.- Basic Properties of ABC Rules.- Proportionality.- Algorithms and Computational Complexity.- Related Formalisms and Applications.- Outlook and Research Directions.- Additional Proofs.
"The present document concerns the presentation of a special type of processes known as the multi-winner voting. ... It is an interesting document, which may be a basic reference especially that in social sciences such as politics ... . In its structure, the document is well organized. ... The document is achieved with a technical Appendix designated to some useful proofs and counterexamples." (Anouar Ben Mabrouk, zbMATH 1514.91004, 2023)
“The present document concerns the presentation of a special type of processes known as the multi-winner voting. … It is an interesting document, which may be a basic reference especially that in social sciences such as politics … . In its structure, the document is well organized. … The document is achieved with a technical Appendix designated to some useful proofs and counterexamples.” (Anouar Ben Mabrouk, zbMATH 1514.91004, 2023)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems |
| Zusatzinfo | XI, 121 p. 14 illus., 8 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 218 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | ABC Rules • Approval-Based Committee (ABC) Voting • Artificial Intelligence • collective decisions • computational social choice • Fairness Axioms • Multi-Winner Voting • open access • Proportionality • Strategic Voting |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-09015-2 / 3031090152 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-09015-8 / 9783031090158 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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