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Cardano's Voltaire Governance: Complete Specification and Research Program
Nimrod Talmon, Oghenekaro Elem
Blockchain governance, the set of processes by which decentralized protocols evolve, remains a fundamental challenge in balancing adaptability, security, and stakeholder representa…
Constitutional Governance in Metric Spaces
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Computational social choice and algorithmic decision theory offer rich aggregation theory but no end-to-end process for egalitarian self-governance: aggregation, deliberation, amen…
Probably Approximately Consensus: On the Learning Theory of Finding Common Ground
Carter Blair, Ben Armstrong, Shiri Alouf-Heffetz +2
A primary goal of online deliberation platforms is to identify ideas that are broadly agreeable to a community of users through their expressed preferences. Yet, consensus elicitat…
Query-Based Committee Selection
Itay Asher Zimet, Shiri Alouf-Heffetz, Nimrod Talmon
Purpose: Multiwinner voting rules typically require full knowledge of voter preferences, which becomes impractical in large-scale or attention-limited settings. This paper investig…
An Adaptive Multichain Blockchain: A Multiobjective Optimization Approach
Nimrod Talmon, Haim Zysberg
Blockchains are widely used for secure transaction processing, but their scalability remains limited, and existing multichain designs are typically static even as demand and capaci…
Adjusted Winner: from Splitting to Selling
Robert Bredereck, Bin Sun, Eyal Briman +1
The Adjusted Winner (AW) method is a fundamental procedure for the fair division of indivisible resources between two agents. However, its reliance on splitting resources can lead…
Legitimate Overrides in Decentralized Protocols
Oghenekaro Elem, Nimrod Talmon
Decentralized protocols claim immutable, rule-based execution, yet many embed emergency mechanisms such as chain-level freezes, protocol pauses, and account quarantines. These over…
How Similar Are Two Elections?
Piotr Faliszewski, Piotr Skowron, Arkadii Slinko +3
We introduce and study isomorphic distances between ordinal elections (with the same numbers of candidates and voters). The main feature of these distances is that they are invaria…
AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation: Modeling, Simulation, and a Textual Case Study
Eyal Briman, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI sub-fields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind e…
Algorithms for Collaborative Harmonization
Eyal Briman, Eyal Leizerovich, Nimrod Talmon
We consider a specific scenario of text aggregation, in the realm of musical harmonization. Musical harmonization shares similarities with text aggregation, however the language of…
A Dynamic Approach to Collaborative Document Writing (Full Version)
Avital Finanser, Nimrod Talmon
We introduce a model for collaborative text aggregation in which an agent community coauthors a document, modeled as an unordered collection of paragraphs, using a dynamic mechanis…
A Social Choice Analysis of Optimism's Retroactive Project Funding
Eyal Briman, Nimrod Talmon, Angela Kreitenweis +1
The Optimism Retroactive Project Funding (RetroPGF) is a key initiative within the blockchain ecosystem that retroactively rewards projects deemed valuable to the Ethereum and Opti…
AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation
Eyal Briman, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI subfields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind et…
Framework of Voting Prediction of Parliament Members
Zahi Mizrahi, Shai Berkovitz, Nimrod Talmon +1
Keeping track of how lawmakers vote is essential for government transparency. While many parliamentary voting records are available online, they are often difficult to interpret, m…
Constitutional Consensus for Democratic Governance
Idit Keidar, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro +1
Permissionless-consensus-based Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are the prevailing paradigm for participant-governed digital organisations. As participants have verifi…
Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
We propose a framework for the fair democratic governance of federated digital communities that form and evolve dynamically, where small groups self-govern and larger groups are re…
Drawing a Map of Elections
Stanisław Szufa, Niclas Boehmer, Robert Bredereck +5
Our main contribution is the introduction of the map of elections framework. A map of elections consists of three main elements: (1) a dataset of elections (i.e., collections of or…
Federated Assemblies
Daniel Halpern, Ariel D. Procaccia, Ehud Shapiro +1
A citizens' assembly is a group of people who are randomly selected to represent a larger population in a deliberation. While this approach has successfully strengthened democracy,…
Optimizing Viscous Democracy
Ben Armstrong, Shiri Alouf-Heffetz, Nimrod Talmon
Viscous democracy is a generalization of liquid democracy, a social choice framework in which voters may transitively delegate their votes. In viscous democracy, a "viscosity" fact…
Controlling Delegations in Liquid Democracy
Shiri Alouf-Heffetz, Tanmay Inamdar, Pallavi Jain +2
In liquid democracy, agents can either vote directly or delegate their vote to a different agent of their choice. This results in a power structure in which certain agents possess…
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
Davide Grossi, Ulrike Hahn, Michael Mäs +26
This white paper outlines a long-term scientific vision for the development of digital-democracy technology. We contend that if digital democracy is to meet the ambition of enablin…
Efficient Social Choice via NLP and Sampling
Lior Ashkenazy, Nimrod Talmon
Attention-Aware Social Choice tackles the fundamental conflict faced by some agent communities between their desire to include all members in the decision making processes and the…
Participatory Budgeting: Data, Tools, and Analysis
Piotr Faliszewski, Jarosław Flis, Dominik Peters +5
We provide a library of participatory budgeting data (Pabulib) and open source tools (Pabutools and Pabustats) for analysing this data. We analyse how the results of participatory…
Fine-Grained Liquid Democracy for Cumulative Ballots
Matthias Köppe, Martin Koutecký, Krzysztof Sornat +1
We investigate efficient ways for the incorporation of liquid democracy into election settings in which voters submit cumulative ballots, i.e., when each voter is assigned a virtua…