Multiwinner analogues of the plurality rule: Axiomatic and algorithmic perspectives

Piotr Faliszewski, Piotr Skowron, Arkadii Slinko, Nimrod Talmon

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Abstract

We characterize the class of committee scoring rules that satisfy the fixed-majority criterion. In some sense, the committee scoring rules in this class are multiwinner analogues of the single-winner Plurality rule, which is uniquely characterized as the only single-winner scoring rule that satisfies the simple majority criterion. We find that, for most of the rules in our new class, the complexity of winner determination is high (i.e., the problem of computing the winners is NP-hard), but we also show some examples of polynomial-time winner determination procedures, exact and approximate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
PublisherAAAI press
Pages482-488
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781577357605
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 12 Feb 201617 Feb 2016

Publication series

Name30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016

Conference

Conference30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period12/02/1617/02/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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