We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible public goods. We model the public
goods as elements with feasibility constraints on what subsets of elements can be chosen …

We define and study a general framework for approval-based budgeting methods and
compare certain methods within this framework by their axiomatic and computational …

In participatory budgeting, communities collectively decide on the allocation of public tax
dollars for local public projects. In this work, we consider the question of fairly aggregating …

In the committee selection problem, we are given m candidates, and n voters. Candidates
can have different weights. A committee is a subset of candidates, and its weight is the sum …

Knapsack Voting Page 1 Knapsack Voting Ashish Goel, Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy, Sukolsak
Sakshuwong, Tanja Aitamurto Presented By: Raymond Cheng March 1, 2019 Page 2 Overview …

Surveys are a common instrument to gauge self-reported opinions from the crowd for
scholars in the CSCW community, the social sciences, and many other research areas …

A growing movement of 'effective altruists' are trying to find the best ways of helping others
as much as possible. The fields of mechanism design and social choice theory have the …

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that allows voters to directly participate
in the decision-making process regarding budget spending. The process typically involves …

We define and study a general framework for approval-based budgeting methods and
compare certain methods within this framework by their axiomatic and computational …

This two volume set LNCS 14422-14423 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th
International Conference, COCOON 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 2023 …