Choosing Collectively Optimal Sets of Alternatives Based on the Condorcet Criterion
E. Elkind, J. Lang, A. Saffidine
IJCAI 2011
Abstract
In elections, an alternative is said to be a Condorcet winner if it is preferred to any other alternative by a majority of voters. While this is a very attractive solution concept, many elections do not have a Condorcet winner. In this paper, we propose a setvalued relaxation of this concept, which we call a Condorcet winning set: such sets consist of alternatives that collectively dominate any other alternative. We also consider a more general version of this concept, where instead of domination by a majority of voters we require domination by a given fraction theta of voters; we refer to this concept as theta-winning set. We explore social choice-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of these solution concepts, both theoretically and empirically.
Remarks: There is a journal version: Edith Elkind, Jérôme Lang, Abdallah Saffidine, Condorcet winning sets. Soc. Choice Welf. 44(3): 493-517 (2015)
Experiments:
Election type |
Culture |
Candidates |
Voters |
Instances |
Parameters |
Ordinal |
Impartial Culture |
{15, 50, 100} |
{10, 11, 20, 21, 100, 101} |
None |
None |
Ordinal |
Impartial Culture |
{30} |
[1-100] |
None |
None |
Ordinal |
Impartial Culture |
{20} |
{5, 8, 20, 500, 2000} |
None |
None |