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Robustness Radius for Chamberlin-Courant on Restricted Domains

verfasst von : Neeldhara Misra, Chinmay Sonar

Erschienen in: SOFSEM 2019: Theory and Practice of Computer Science

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The notion of robustness in the context of committee elections was introduced by Bredereck et al. [SAGT 2018] [2] to capture the impact of small changes in the input preference orders, depending on the voting rules used. They show that for certain voting rules, such as Chamberlin-Courant, checking if an election instance is robust, even to the extent of a small constant, is computationally hard. More specifically, it is NP-hard to determine if one swap in any of the votes can change the set of winning committees with respect to the Chamberlin-Courant voting rule. Further, the problem is also \(\mathsf {W[1]}\)-hard when parameterized by the size of the committee, k. We complement this result by suggesting an algorithm that is in \(\mathsf {XP}\) with respect to k. We also show that on nearly-structured profiles, the problem of robustness remains NP-hard. We also address the case of approval ballots, where we show a hardness result analogous to the one established in [2] about rankings and again demonstrate an \(\mathsf {XP}\) algorithm.

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Fußnoten
1
We refer the reader to the section on Preliminaries for the definition of \(\ell \)-single-crossing domains. Some definitions and results are deferred to the full version due to lack of space and are marked with a \((\star )\).
 
2
Note the slight abuse of terminology here: when referring to \(C_W\) as a hitting set, we are referring to the elements of U corresponding to the candidates in \(C_W\). As long as this is clear from the context, we will continue to use this convention.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Robustness Radius for Chamberlin-Courant on Restricted Domains
verfasst von
Neeldhara Misra
Chinmay Sonar
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10801-4_27