5 papers
Coalition Tactics: Bribery and Control in Parliamentary Elections
Hodaya Barr, Eden Hartman, Yonatan Aumann +1
Strategic manipulation of elections is typically studied in the context of promoting individual candidates. In parliamentary elections, however, the focus shifts: voters may care m…
Fairly Wired: Towards Leximin-Optimal Division of Electricity
Eden Hartman, Dinesh Kumar Baghel, Erel Segal-Halevi
In many parts of the world - particularly in developing countries - the demand for electricity exceeds the available supply. In such cases, it is impossible to provide electricity…
Control for Coalitions in Parliamentary Elections
Hodaya Barr, Eden Hartman, Yonatan Aumann +1
The traditional election control problem focuses on the use of control to promote a single candidate. In parliamentary elections, however, the focus shifts: voters care no less abo…
It's Not All Black and White: Degree of Truthfulness for Risk-Avoiding Agents
Eden Hartman, Erel Segal-Halevi, Biaoshuai Tao
The classic notion of \emph{truthfulness} requires that no agent has a profitable manipulation -- an untruthful report that, for \emph{some} combination of reports of the other age…
Reducing Leximin Fairness to Utilitarian Optimization
Eden Hartman, Yonatan Aumann, Avinatan Hassidim +1
Two prominent objectives in social choice are utilitarian - maximizing the sum of agents' utilities, and leximin - maximizing the smallest agent's utility, then the second-smallest…