Coordinating monetary contributions in participatory budgeting

• Published in: Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems Vol. 39; no. 2
• Main Authors: Aziz, Haris, Gujar, Sujit, Padala, Manisha, Suzuki, Mashbat, Vollen, Jeremy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Axioms; Budgeting; Combinatorial analysis; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Knapsack problem; Maximization; Optimization; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Social choice; Approximation algorithms; Welfare maximization; Participatory budgeting

We formalize a framework for coordinating funding and selecting projects, the costs of which are shared among agents with quasi-linear utility functions and individual budgets. Our model contains the discrete participatory budgeting model as a special case, while capturing other useful scenarios. We...