Individuals do not typically reason in isolation when confronted with collectivedecision
making, but rather take into consideration the preferences of likeminded individuals and …

Election control considers the problem of an adversary who attempts to tamper with a voting
process, in order to either ensure that their favored candidate wins (constructive control) or …

We study the effects of campaigning, where the society is partitioned into voter clusters and
a diffusion process propagates opinions in a network connecting the clusters. Our model can …

We consider a social choice problem where only a small number of people out of a large
population are sufficiently available or motivated to vote. A common solution to increase …

We study a rating system in which a set of individuals (eg, the customers of a restaurant)
evaluate a given service (eg, the restaurant), with their aggregated opinion determining the …

Voting is almost never done in void, as usually there are some relations between the
alternatives on which the voters vote on. These relations shall be taken into consideration …

Multi-winner voting rules aiming at proportional representation, 1 such as those suggested
by Chamberlin and Courant [2] and by Monroe [5], partition an electorate into virtual districts …

We investigate the problem of binary opinion aggregation in a social network regarding an
objective outcome. Agents receive independent noisy signals relating to the outcome, but …

We investigate how to reconstruct social networks from voting data. In particular, given a
voting model that considers social network structure, we aim to find the network that best …

News outlets, surveyors, and other organizations often conduct polls on social networks to
gain insights into public opinion. Such a poll is typically started by someone on a social …