4 accepted papers
We study strategic candidate nomination by parties in elections decided by Plurality voting. Each party selects a nominee before the election, and the winner is chosen from the nominated candidates based on the voters
A perfect clone in an ordinal election (i.e., an election where the voters rank the candidates in a strict linear order) is a set of candidates that each voter ranks consecutively. We consider different relaxations of this notion: *independent* or *subelection clones* are sets of candidates that on
We study fundamental connections between coalition formation games and clustering, illustrating the cross-disciplinary relevance of these concepts. We focus on graphical hedonic games where agents' preferences are compactly represented by a friendship graph and an enemy graph. In the context of…
We survey the notion of control in various areas of computational social choice (COMSOC) such as voting, fair allocation, cooperative game theory, matching under preferences, and group identification. In all these scenarios, control can be exerted, for instance, by adding or deleting agents with the