The (computational) social choice take on indivisible participatory budgeting

S Rey, J Maly - arxiv preprint arxiv:2303.00621, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this survey, we review the literature investigating participatory budgeting as a social
choice problem. Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens are …

Participatory budgeting designs for the real world

R Fairstein, G Benadè, K Gal - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Participatory budgeting engages the public in the process of allocating public money to
different types of projects. PB designs differ in how voters are asked to express their …

[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 …

Pabulib: A participatory budgeting library

D Stolicki, S Szufa, N Talmon - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.06539, 2020 - arxiv.org
We describe the PArticipatory BUdgeting LIBrary website (in short, Pabulib), which can be
accessed via http://pabulib. org/, and which is a library of participatory budgeting data. In …

Designing participatory budgeting mechanisms grounded in judgment aggregation

S Rey, U Endriss, R de Haan - 2020 - eprints.illc.uva.nl
We introduce a new approach for designing rules for participatory budgeting (PB), the
problem of deciding on the use of public funds based directly on the views expressed by the …

Welfare vs. representation in participatory budgeting

R Fairstein, R Meir, D Vilenchik, K Gal - arxiv preprint arxiv:2201.07546, 2022 - arxiv.org
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process for allocating funds to projects based
on the votes of members of the community. Different rules have been used to aggregate …

Ecology projects and participatory budgeting: Enhancing citizens' support

S Gherghina, P Tap - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In contemporary times, a large number of ecology projects are put on the public agenda
through participatory budgeting. There is variation in the support they receive from citizens …

Near-tight algorithms for the Chamberlin-Courant and Thiele voting rules

K Sornat, VV Williams, Y Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.14173, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present an almost optimal algorithm for the classic Chamberlin-Courant multiwinner
voting rule (CC) on single-peaked preference profiles. Given $ n $ voters and $ m …

A general framework for participatory budgeting with additional constraints

S Rey, U Endriss, R de Haan - Social Choice and Welfare, 2023 - Springer
We introduce a new approach for designing rules for participatory budgeting, the problem of
deciding on the use of public funds based directly on the views expressed by the citizens …

[PDF][PDF] Tight approximation for proportional approval voting

S Dudycz, P Manurangsi, J Marcinkowski… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ijcai.org
In approval-based multiwinner elections, we are given a set of voters, a set of candidates,
and, for each voter, a set of candidates approved by the voter. The goal is to find a …