3 papers
cs.GT2021
District-Fair Participatory Budgeting
D Ellis Hershkowitz, Anson Kahng, Dominik Peters +1
Participatory budgeting is a method used by city governments to select public projects to fund based on residents' votes. Many cities use participatory budgeting at a district leve…
cs.GT2018
The Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Democracy
Paul Gölz, Anson Kahng, Simon Mackenzie +1
Liquid democracy is the principle of making collective decisions by letting agents transitively delegate their votes. Despite its significant appeal, it has become apparent that a…
cs.DS2018
Computation-Aware Data Aggregation
Bernhard Haeupler, D Ellis Hershkowitz, Anson Kahng +1
Data aggregation is a fundamental primitive in distributed computing wherein a network computes a function of every nodes' input. However, while compute time is non-negligible in m…