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SEMCO
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 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
14 years 1 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
14 years 13 days 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 11 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 9 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...