Fair public decision making

V Conitzer, R Freeman, N Shah - … of the 2017 ACM Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We generalize the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to the problem of fair
public decision making, in which a decision must be made on several social issues …

[PDF][PDF] Broadening the research agenda for computational social choice: Multiple preference profiles and multiple solutions

N Boehmer, R Niedermeier - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2021 - ifmas.csc.liv.ac.uk
The area of computational social choice (COMSOC) analyzes collective decision problems
from an algorithmic perspective. So far, the main focus in this area lied on analyzing …

Proportional aggregation of preferences for sequential decision making

N Chandak, S Goel, D Peters - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
We study the problem of fair sequential decision making given voter preferences. In each
round, a decision rule must choose a decision from a set of alternatives where each voter …

Proportional decisions in perpetual voting

M Lackner, J Maly - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Perpetual voting is a framework for long-term collective decision making. In this framework,
we consider a sequence of subsequent approval-based elections and try to achieve a fair …

Perpetual voting: Fairness in long-term decision making

M Lackner - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
In this paper we introduce a new voting formalism to support long-term collective decision
making: perpetual voting rules. These are voting rules that take the history of previous …

Fair algorithms for multi-agent multi-armed bandits

S Hossain, E Micha, N Shah - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose a multi-agent variant of the classical multi-armed bandit problem, in which there
are $ N $ agents and $ K $ arms, and pulling an arm generates a (possibly different) …

Fair knapsack

T Fluschnik, P Skowron, M Triphaus, K Wilker - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
We study the following multiagent variant of the knapsack problem. We are given a set of
items, a set of voters, and a value of the budget; each item is endowed with a cost and each …

Approximating the Nash social welfare with budget-additive valuations

J Garg, M Hoefer, K Mehlhorn - Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM …, 2018 - SIAM
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximizing the Nash social
welfare when allocating indivisible items to agents with budget-additive valuation functions …

Temporal Fairness in Multiwinner Voting

E Elkind, S Obraztsova, N Teh - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Multiwinner voting captures a wide variety of settings, from parliamentary elections in
democratic systems to product placement in online shop** platforms. There is a large …

[PDF][PDF] Fairness in long-term participatory budgeting

M Lackner, J Maly, S Rey - … of the 20th International Conference on …, 2021 - simonrey.fr
Participatory Budgeting processes are usually designed to span several years, with
referenda for new budget allocations taking place regularly. This paper presents the first …