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oapen-20.500.12657-601492024-03-27T14:14:52Z Multi-Winner Voting with Approval Preferences Lackner, Martin Skowron, Piotr Multi-Winner Voting Computational Social Choice Approval-Based Committee (ABC) Voting ABC Rules Proportionality Fairness Axioms Strategic Voting Collective Decisions Artificial Intelligence thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science From fundamental concepts and results to recent advances in computational social choice, this open access book provides a thorough and in-depth look at multi-winner voting based on approval preferences. The main focus is on axiomatic analysis, algorithmic results and several applications that are relevant in artificial intelligence, computer science and elections of any kind. What is the best way to select a set of candidates for a shortlist, for an executive committee, or for product recommendations? Multi-winner voting is the process of selecting a fixed-size set of candidates based on the preferences expressed by the voters. A wide variety of decision processes in settings ranging from politics (parliamentary elections) to the design of modern computer applications (collaborative filtering, dynamic Q&A platforms, diversity in search results, etc.) share the problem of identifying a representative subset of alternatives. The study of multi-winner voting provides the principled analysis of this task. Approval-based committee voting rules (in short: ABC rules) are multi-winner voting rules particularly suitable for practical use. Their usability is founded on the straightforward form in which the voters can express preferences: voters simply have to differentiate between approved and disapproved candidates. Proposals for ABC rules are numerous, some dating back to the late 19th century while others have been introduced only very recently. This book explains and discusses these rules, highlighting their individual strengths and weaknesses. With the help of this book, the reader will be able to choose a suitable ABC voting rule in a principled fashion, participate in, and be up to date with the ongoing research on this topic. 2022-12-13T12:35:06Z 2022-12-13T12:35:06Z 2023 book ONIX_20221213_9783031090165_20 9783031090165 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60149 eng SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-09016-5.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-09016-5 Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-09016-5 10.1007/978-3-031-09016-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 f7ea308e-de3d-486f-8ae7-aceec0a0b938 9783031090165 Springer 121 Cham [...] open access
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From fundamental concepts and results to recent advances in computational social choice, this open access book provides a thorough and in-depth look at multi-winner voting based on approval preferences. The main focus is on axiomatic analysis, algorithmic results and several applications that are relevant in artificial intelligence, computer science and elections of any kind. What is the best way to select a set of candidates for a shortlist, for an executive committee, or for product recommendations? Multi-winner voting is the process of selecting a fixed-size set of candidates based on the preferences expressed by the voters. A wide variety of decision processes in settings ranging from politics (parliamentary elections) to the design of modern computer applications (collaborative filtering, dynamic Q&A platforms, diversity in search results, etc.) share the problem of identifying a representative subset of alternatives. The study of multi-winner voting provides the principled analysis of this task. Approval-based committee voting rules (in short: ABC rules) are multi-winner voting rules particularly suitable for practical use. Their usability is founded on the straightforward form in which the voters can express preferences: voters simply have to differentiate between approved and disapproved candidates. Proposals for ABC rules are numerous, some dating back to the late 19th century while others have been introduced only very recently. This book explains and discusses these rules, highlighting their individual strengths and weaknesses. With the help of this book, the reader will be able to choose a suitable ABC voting rule in a principled fashion, participate in, and be up to date with the ongoing research on this topic.
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