Adapting the Social Network to Affect Elections

S. Sina, N. Hazon, A. Hassidim, S. Kraus

Election type Ordinal
Culture Urn Model
Candidates [3-10]
Voters {25000, 50000, 75000, 100000}
A poll on a random subset of 500 voters was also considered in each run of the experiment.
Instances 1000
100 runs for each of 10 different network configurations
Parameters “Urn model (with 2-urns and with 3-urns)”. Unclear what that means.
Motivation intro mentions “race for nominations for Democratic (Republican) presidential ticket”