Summary: 10/8/2010
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Voting and social choice
Looking at a problem from the designers point ofLooking at a problem from the designers point of
view
Voting over alternatives
> >
voting rule
(mechanism)
determines winner
based on votes
> >
based on votes
· Can vote over other things too
­ Where to go for dinner tonight, other joint plans, ...
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Voting (rank aggregation)
· Set of m candidates (aka. alternatives, outcomes)
· n voters; each voter ranks all the candidates

Source: Allan, Vicki H. - Department of Computer Science, Utah State University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences