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APPROX
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Where's the Winner? Max-Finding and Sorting with Metric Costs
Traditionally, a fundamental assumption in evaluating the performance of algorithms for sorting and selection has been that comparing any two elements costs one unit (of time, work...
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar
IANDC
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Parameterized computational complexity of Dodgson and Young elections
We show that the two NP-complete problems of Dodgson Score and Young Score have differing computational complexities when the winner is close to being a Condorcet winner. On the ...
Nadja Betzler, Jiong Guo, Rolf Niedermeier
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Incompleteness and Incomparability in Preference Aggregation
We consider how to combine the preferences of multiple agents despite the presence of incompleteness and incomparability in their preference orderings. An agent’s preference orde...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Winner Determination in Sequential Majority Voting
Voting rules map collections of preference orderings over a set of candidates (one for each voter) to candidates. Now, in many contexts, we have to consider the case where either t...
Jérôme Lang, Maria Silvia Pini, Franc...
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Determining Possible and Necessary Winners under Common Voting Rules Given Partial Orders
Usually a voting rule requires agents to give their preferences as linear orders. However, in some cases it is impractical for an agent to give a linear order over all the alterna...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer