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AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Computational Study of the Kemeny Rule for Preference Aggregation
We consider from a computational perspective the problem of how to aggregate the ranking preferences of a number of alternatives by a number of different voters into a single cons...
Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant Kalagnanam
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Bounds for Computing Kemeny Rankings
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One voting rule of particular interest is the Kemeny rule, which minimizes the...
Vincent Conitzer, Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant Kala...
IWPEC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Parameterized Algorithms for the Kemeny Aggregation Problem
We give improvements over fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms to solve the Kemeny aggregation problem, where the task is to summarize a multi-set of preference lists, call...
Narges Simjour
IWPEC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Partial Kernelization for Rank Aggregation: Theory and Experiments
RANK AGGREGATION is important in many areas ranging from web search over databases to bioinformatics. The underlying decision problem KEMENY SCORE is NP-complete even in case of fo...
Nadja Betzler, Robert Bredereck, Rolf Niedermeier
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier