Voting rules from random relations

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2020-08
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Wilson, Nic
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We consider a way of generating voting rules based on a random relation, the winners being alternatives that have the highest probability of being supported. We define different notions of support, such as whether an alternative dominates the other alternatives, or whether an alternative is undominated, and we consider structural assumptions on the form of the random relation, such as being acyclic, asymmetric, connex or transitive. We give sufficient conditions on the supporting function for the associated voting rule to satisfy various properties such as Pareto and monotonicity. The random generation scheme involves a parameter p between zero and one. Further voting rules are obtained by tending p to zero, and by tending p to one, and these limiting rules satisfy a homogeneity property, and, in certain cases, Condorcet consistency. We define a language of supporting functions based on eight natural properties, and categorise the different rules that can be generated for the limiting p cases.
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Random generation , Voting rules , Artificial intelligence (AI)
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Wilson, N. (2020) 'Voting Rules from Random Relations', ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 29 Aug. - 8 Sept., Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 325, pp. 235-242. doi: 10.3233/FAIA200098