Social Choice Theory as a Foundation for Multiagent Systems

Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • J.P. Müller
  • M. Weyrich
  • A.L.C. Bazzan
Book title Multiagent System Technologies
Book subtitle 12th German Conference, MATES 2014, Stuttgart, Germany, September 23-25, 2014 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783319115832
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319115849
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to) 1-6
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Social choice theory is the study of mechanisms for collective decision making. While originally concerned with modelling and analysing political decision making in groups of people, its basic principles, arguably, are equally relevant to modelling and analysing the kinds of interaction taking place in a multiagent system. In support of this position, I review examples from three strands of research in social choice theory: fair division, voting, and judgment aggregation.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_1
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