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Majority judgment over a convex candidate space

Authors :
Chiwei Yan
Cynthia Barnhart
Vikrant Vaze
Michael O. Ball
Prem Swaroop
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Source :
Prof. Barnhart via Elizabeth Soergel
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2019.

Abstract

Most voting methods can only deal with a finite number of candidates. In practice, there are important voting applications where the candidate space is continuous. We describe a new voting method by extending the Majority Judgment voting and ranking method to handle a continuous candidate space which is modeled as a convex set. We characterize the structure of the winner determination problem and present a practical iterative voting procedure for finding a (or the) winner when voter preferences are unknown.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Prof. Barnhart via Elizabeth Soergel
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....76f1bf83169bf105747799820e436bdb