Social Choice Theory as a Foundation for Multiagent Systems

Social choice theory is the study of mechanisms for collective decision making. While originally concerned with modelling and analysing political decision making in groups of people, its basic principles, arguably, are equally relevant to modelling and analysing the kinds of interaction taking place...

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Published inMultiagent System Technologies pp. 1 - 6
Main Author Endriss, Ulle
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Multiagent System
Plurality Rule
Resource Allocation Problem
Social Choice
Social Choice Theory
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ISBN3319115839
9783319115832
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_1

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Summary:Social choice theory is the study of mechanisms for collective decision making. While originally concerned with modelling and analysing political decision making in groups of people, its basic principles, arguably, are equally relevant to modelling and analysing the kinds of interaction taking place in a multiagent system. In support of this position, I review examples from three strands of research in social choice theory: fair division, voting, and judgment aggregation.
ISBN:3319115839
9783319115832
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_1