Predicting Voting Outcomes for Multi-Alternative Elections in Social Networks

X Liu, F Ren, G Su, M Zhang, W Gu, S Kato - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Voting behavior in one-shot and iterative multiple referenda

U Grandi, J Lang, AI Ozkes, S Airiau - Social Choice and Welfare, 2022 - Springer
We consider a set of voters making a collective decision via simultaneous vote on two binary
issues. Voters' preferences are captured by payoffs assigned to combinations of outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting voting outcomes in the presence of communities, echo chambers and multiple parties

J Bara, O Lev, P Turrini - Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
When individuals interact in a social network their opinions can change, at times quite
significantly, as a result of social influence. In elections, for example, while they might initially …

Guide to Numerical Experiments on Elections in Computational Social Choice

N Boehmer, P Faliszewski, Ł Janeczko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We analyze how numerical experiments regarding elections were conducted within the
computational social choice literature (focusing on papers published in the IJCAI, AAAI, and …

Predicting voting outcomes in presence of communities

J Bara, O Lev, P Turrini - Proceedings of the 20th International …, 2021 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
We study several fairness notions in allocating indivisible chores (ie, items with non-positive
values): envy-freeness and its relaxations. For allocations under each fairness criterion, we …

Do We Care About Poll Manipulation in Political Elections?

V Mousseau, H Surugue, A Wilczynski - ECAI 2024, 2024 - ebooks.iospress.nl
We consider the problem of poll manipulation in political elections. In the context of strategic
voting, we are interested in whether a polling institute can manipulate the information it …

On the complexity of majority illusion in social networks

U Grandi, G Lisowski, MS Ramanujan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Majority illusion occurs in a social network when the majority of the network nodes belong to
a certain type but each node's neighbours mostly belong to a different type, therefore …

Possible and Necessary Winner Problems in Iterative Elections with Multiple Rules

P Li, J Guo - International Workshop on Frontiers in Algorithmics, 2022 - Springer
An iterative election eliminates some candidates in each round until the remaining
candidates have the same score according to a given voting rule. Prominent iterative voting …

Strategies improve social welfare: an empirical study of strategic voting in social networks

X Liu, F Ren, G Su, M Zhang - Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - Springer
In utilitarian social choice settings, agents have cardinal utilities over candidates, while for
many reasons they only report their ordinal rankings for candidates. One possible way is to …

A New Model for Bias‐Generating Agent‐Based Simulation and Its Application to Election Systems: Allowing Agents to Make Mistakes for a Reason

J Pan, A Yoshikawa… - Mathematical Problems in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have proposed that vote tampering based on heuristic algorithms can
manipulate voters' votes. It can be found from the analysis of the poll results of the 2016 US …