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Survey on Multi-winner Voting Theory

LI Li   

  1. School of Administrative Law,Southwest University of Political Science and Law,Chongqing 401120,China
  • Received:2020-06-01 Revised:2020-08-19 Online:2021-01-15 Published:2021-01-15
  • About author:LI Li,born in 1982,Ph.D,lecturer,master supervisor.Her main research interests include modern logic and artificial intelligence.
  • Supported by:
    National Social Science Fund Project(18BZX133) and Chongqing Social Science Association Planning Project(2016BS009).

Abstract: With the advent of the intelligent age,the way of collective decision-making is also changing.People are no longer satis-fied with a single-winner decision result,but need a committee which is composed of multiple winners as a winner set,and this committee set is applied to the recommendation system and search engine,policy vote and corporate decision-making,etc.The biggest advantage of the multi-winner voting theory is that the decision cost is low and the decision efficiency is quite high,which is an excellent collective decision method.The research core of multi-winner voting theory lies in finding multi-winner voting rules which are suitable for different application scenarios.This paper introduces two categories of multi-winner decision-making methods,the committee's voting rules and the multi-winner voting rules based on approval voting.The two types of rules represent the research directions of two different types of multi-winner voting theory.This paper explains the representative multi-winner voting rules under the two categories of rules based on the establishment of a logic model,and tries to discuss the development trend of the multi-winner voting theory by sorting out the current influential literatures.It is expected to help more researchers to solve problems in practice with this theory.

Key words: Collective decision-making, Committee, Computational social choice, Multi-winner voting rules, Voting model

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