Introduction to Computational Social Choice

Felix Brandt (1) , Vincent Conitzer (2) , Ulle Endriss (3) , Jérôme Lang (4) , Ariel D. Procaccia (5)

1 LRR-TUM - Institut für Informatik
2 Department of Computer Science
3 ILLC - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
4 LAMSADE - Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision
5 Computer Science Department - Carnegie Mellon University

Social choice theory is the field of scientific inquiry that studies the aggregation of individual preferences toward a collective choice. For example, social choice theorists— who hail from a range of different disciplines, including mathematics, economics, and political science—are interested in the design and theoretical evaluation of voting rules. Questions of social choice have stimulated intellectual thought for centuries. Over time, the topic has fascinated many a great mind, from the Marquis de Condorcet and Pierre-Simon de Laplace, through Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland), to Nobel laureates such as Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Lloyd Shapley.

Mots clés: social choice; game theory

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Felix Brandt, Vincent Conitzer, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Ariel D. Procaccia. Introduction to Computational Social Choice. Felix Brandt, Vincent Conitzer, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Ariel D. Procaccia, Handbook of Computational Social Choice, Cambridge University Press, pp.1-29, 2016, 9781107446984. ⟨10.1017/CBO9781107446984⟩. ⟨hal-01493516⟩