After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

In typical theoretical models of voting, all voters submit their vote at once, without an option
to change or revise their decision. While this assumption fits some political voting settings, it …

We suggest a new model for strategic voting based on local dominance, where voters
consider a set of possible outcomes without assigning probabilities to them. We prove that …

Social choice theory deals with aggregating the preferences of multiple individuals
regarding several available alternatives, a situation colloquially known as voting. There are …

We study convergence properties of iterative voting procedures. Such procedures are
defined by a voting rule and a (restricted) iterative process, where at each step one agent …

In multi-alternative elections, messages in support of or against alternatives spread across
online social media. To make decisions, individuals integrate various sources of information …

In collective decision making, where a voting rule is used to take a collective decision
among a group of agents, manipulation by one or more agents is usually considered …

We propose a model where voters are embedded in a social network. Each voter observes
the ballots of her neighbors in the network, from which she infers the likely outcome of the …

Classical results in social choice theory on the susceptibility of voting rules to strategic
manipulation make the assumption that the manipulator has complete information regarding …

We investigate the effect a social network could have on voting outcomes. We consider a
group of self-interested agents where each agent has a strict preference order over a set of …