Single-peaked consistency and its complexity

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Escoffier;Jérôme Lang;Meltem Öztürk

  • Affiliations:
  • LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine and CNRS, email: escoffier@lamsade.dauphine.fr;IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, email: lang@irit.fr;CRIL, Université d'Artois, email: ozturk@cril.fr

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A common way of dealing with the paradoxes of preference aggregation consists in restricting the domain of admissible preferences. The most well-known such restriction is single-peakedness. In this paper we focus on the problem of determining whether a given profile is single-peaked with respect to some axis, and on the computation of such an axis. This problem has already been considered in [2]; we give here a more efficient algorithm and address some related issues, such as the number of orders that may be compatible with a given profile, or the communication complexity of preference aggregation under the single-peakedness assumption.