3 papers
cs.GT2026
Social Welfare in Budget Aggregation
Javier Cembrano, Rupert Freeman, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin +1
We study budget aggregation under -utilities, a model for collective decision making in which agents with heterogeneous preferences must allocate a public budget across a s…
cs.GT2025
City Sampling for Citizens' Assemblies
Paul Gölz, Jan Maly, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin +2
In citizens' assemblies, a group of constituents is randomly selected to weigh in on policy issues. We study a two-stage sampling problem faced by practitioners in countries such a…
cs.GT2025
Discrete Budget Aggregation: Truthfulness and Proportionality
Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Warut Suksompong, Markus Utke
We study a budget aggregation setting where voters express their preferred allocation of a fixed budget over a set of alternatives, and a mechanism aggregates these preferences int…