Gerrymandering is the process by which parties manipulate boundaries of electoral districts
in order to maximize the number of districts they can win. Demographic trends show an …

Much of the social choice literature examines direct voting systems, in which voters submit
their ranked preferences over candidates and a voting rule picks a winner. Real-world …

Abstract We introduce Flexible Representative Democracy (FRD), a novel hybrid of
Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy in which voters can alter the issue …

Voting can abstractly model any decision-making scenario and as such it has been
extensively studied over the decades. Recently, the related literature has focused on …

Collective decision-making often arises when agents interact with one another. In these
situations, any individual in the group may have a preference over the possible choices that …

Borda Count is one of the earliest and most important voting rules and has been central to
many applications in artificial intelligence. We study the problem of control in Borda …

District-based manipulation, or gerrymandering, is usually taken to refer to agents who are in
fixed location, and an external division is imposed upon them. However, in many real-world …

In many practical scenarios, a population is divided into disjoint groups for better
administration, eg, electorates into political districts, employees into departments, students …

In this paper, two optimization problems within the scope of marketing campaign design are
studied. In particular, two ad positioning problems are analyzed with the objective of …

We initiate the systematic algorithmic study for gerrymandering over graphs that was
recently introduced by Cohen-Zemach, Lewenberg and Rosenschein. Namely, we study a …