Justified representation in approval-based committee voting

H Aziz, M Brill, V Conitzer, E Elkind, R Freeman… - Social Choice and …, 2017 - Springer
We consider approval-based committee voting, ie the setting where each voter approves a
subset of candidates, and these votes are then used to select a fixed-size set of winners …

Consistent approval-based multi-winner rules

M Lackner, P Skowron - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper is an axiomatic study of consistent approval-based multi-winner rules, ie, voting
rules that select a fixed-size group of candidates based on approval ballots. We introduce …

Satisfaction approval voting

SJ Brams, DM Kilgour - … With Applications in Natural and Social …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Approval voting (AV) system is well suited to elect a single winner, which almost all the
literature on AV since the 1970s has addressed. Satisfaction approval voting (SAV) works as …

Ranking languages in the European Union: Before and after Brexit

V Ginsburgh, JD Moreno-Ternero, S Weber - European Economic Review, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a framework for evaluating the impact of languages in multilingual
societies. We consider several ranking methods based on various principles, including …

Wine ratings: Seeking a consensus among tasters via normalization, approval, and aggregation

O Gergaud, V Ginsburgh… - Journal of Wine …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The modern era of wine journalism has provided abundant information about wines and
widespread use of numerical rating systems. A tiny difference, especially at the top of the …

How should we score athletes and candidates: geometric scoring rules

AY Kondratev, E Ianovski… - Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Scoring rules are widely used to rank athletes in sports and candidates in elections. Each
position in each individual ranking is worth a certain number of points; the total sum of points …

Two field experiments on approval voting in Germany

C Alós-Ferrer, ÐG Granić - Social Choice and Welfare, 2012 - Springer
We report on two field experiments on Approval Voting conducted during actual state and
federal elections in Germany. Voters provided approval ballots both for named district …

Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports

G Bergantiños, JD Moreno-Ternero - Public Choice, 2023 - Springer
We study the problem of sharing the revenues from broadcasting sports leagues among
participating clubs. First, we characterize the set of rules satisfying two basic axioms …

Refined characterizations of approval-based committee scoring rules

C Dong, P Lederer - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
In approval-based committee (ABC) elections, the goal is to elect a fixed size subset of the
candidates, a so-called committee, based on the voters' approval ballots over the …

Aggregating incomplete pairwise preferences by weight

Z Terzopoulou, U Endriss - 2019 - eprints.illc.uva.nl
We develop a model for the aggregation of preferences that do not need to be either
complete or transitive. Our focus is on the normative characterisation of aggregation rules …