2 papers
cs.LG2024
Learning Aggregation Rules in Participatory Budgeting: A Data-Driven Approach
Roy Fairstein, Dan Vilenchik, Kobi Gal
Participatory Budgeting (PB) offers a democratic process for communities to allocate public funds across various projects through voting. In practice, PB organizers face challenges…
cs.HC2024
A New Heuristic Algorithm for Balanced Deliberation Groups
Jake Barrett, Philipp C Verpoort, Kobi Gal
We here present an improved version of the Sortition Foundation's GROUPSELECT software package, which aims to repeatedly allocate participants of a deliberative process to discussi…