Complexity of shift bribery in committee elections

Robert Bredereck; Piotr Faliszewski; Rolf Niedermeier; Nimrod Talmon

Complexity of shift bribery in committee elections

Robert Bredereck, Piotr Faliszewski, Rolf Niedermeier, Nimrod Talmon

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Abstract

We study the (parameterized) complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY for multiwinner voting rules. We focus on the SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, and Chamberlin-Courant rules, as well as on approximate variants of the Chamberlin-Courant rule, since the original rule is NP-hard to compute. We show that SHIFT BRIBERY tends to be significantly harder in the multiwinner setting than in the single-winner one by showing settings where SHIFT BRIBERY is easy in the single-winner cases, but is hard (and hard to approximate) in the multiwinner ones. We show that the non-monotonicity of those rules which are based on approximation algorithms for the Chamberlin-Courant rule sometimes affects the complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
Publisher	AAAI press
Pages	2452-2458
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577357605
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016 - Phoenix, United States Duration: 12 Feb 2016 → 17 Feb 2016

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Conference	30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Phoenix
Period	12/02/16 → 17/02/16

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