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2015
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Elections with Few Candidates: Prices, Weights, and Covering Problems

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Elections with Few Candidates: Prices, Weights, and Covering Problems
We show that a number of election-related problems with prices (such as, for example, bribery) are fixed-parameter tractable (in FPT) when parameterized by the number of candidates. For bribery, this resolves a nearly 10-year old family of open problems. Our results follow by a general technique that formulates voting problems as covering problems and extends the classic approach of using integer linear programming and the algorithm of Lenstra [19]. In this context, our central result is that WEIGHTED SET MULTICOVER parameterized by the universe size is fixed-parameter tractable. Our approach is also applicable to weighted electoral control for Approval voting. We improve previously known XP-memberships to FPT-memberships. Our preliminary experiments on real-world-based data show the practical usefulness of our approach for instances with few candidates.
Robert Bredereck, Piotr Faliszewski, Rolf Niederme
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Type Journal
Year 2015
Where ALDT
Authors Robert Bredereck, Piotr Faliszewski, Rolf Niedermeier, Piotr Skowron, Nimrod Talmon
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