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SEMCO
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Applications of Voting Theory to Information Mashups
Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the robustness of preference aggregation in noisy environments
In an election held in a noisy environment, agents may unintentionally perturb the outcome by communicating faulty preferences. We investigate this setting by introducing a theore...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Gal A....
ACMDIS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Jukola: democratic music choice in a public space
Jukola is an interactive MP3 Jukebox device designed to allow a group of people in a public space to democratically choose the music being played. A public display is used to nomi...
Kenton O'Hara, Matthew Lipson, Marcel Jansen, Axel...
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
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Automated design of scoring rules by learning from examples
Scoring rules are a broad and concisely-representable class of voting rules which includes, for example, Plurality and Borda. Our main result asserts that the class of scoring rul...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosensc...