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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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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
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Aligning social welfare and agent preferences to alleviate traffic congestion
Multiagent coordination algorithms provide unique insights into the challenging problem of alleviating traffic congestion. What is particularly interesting in this class of proble...
Kagan Tumer, Zachary T. Welch, Adrian K. Agogino
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
MDPOP: faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes
JAIR
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
M-DPOP: Faithful Distributed Implementation of Efficient Social Choice Problems
In the efficient social choice problem, the goal is to assign values, subject to side constraints, to a set of variables to maximize the total utility across a population of agent...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
A Dynamic Rationalization of Distance Rationalizability
Distance rationalizability is an intuitive paradigm for developing and studying voting rules: given a notion of consensus and a distance function on preference profiles, a ration...
Craig Boutilier, Ariel D. Procaccia