Applying Majority Judgment over a Polyhedral Candidate Space

50 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2016 Last revised: 1 Aug 2017

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Chiwei Yan

University of California, Berkeley

Prem Swaroop

University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department

Michael O. Ball

University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department

Cynthia Barnhart

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center

Vikrant Vaze

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Date Written: May 1, 2017

Abstract

Most of the existing voting methods deal with a moderate (or at least finite) number of candidates. In practice, there are important voting applications where candidate space is huge or even of infinite size. We describe new methods in voting by extending the Majority Judgment voting and ranking method to handle a candidate space of infinite size. Specifically, the candidate space is modeled as a polyhedral set. Two approaches are developed. The first approach relies on multiple rounds of grading and iterative candidate generation. The candidate generation employs a novel mixed-integer programming model. The second approach employs a robust optimization framework and only takes as input each voters most preferred candidate. This results in an output vector which is the candidate that has the best worst-case guarantee in terms of majority grade. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches through two case studies involving voting over polyhedral candidate space.

Keywords: Majority Judgment, Polyhedral Candidate Space, Computational Social Choice

Suggested Citation

Yan, Chiwei and Swaroop, Prem and Ball, Michael O. and Barnhart, Cynthia and Vaze, Vikrant, Applying Majority Judgment over a Polyhedral Candidate Space (May 1, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2746568 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2746568

Chiwei Yan (Contact Author)

University of California, Berkeley ( email )

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Prem Swaroop

University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department ( email )

Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Michael O. Ball

University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department ( email )

Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Cynthia Barnhart

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center ( email )

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Vikrant Vaze

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College ( email )

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HOME PAGE: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/vikrant-vaze/

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