Note: Parameterized complexity of control by voter selection in Maximin, Copeland, Borda, Bucklin, and Approval election systems

  • Authors:
  • Hong Liu;Daming Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Elections are an important preference aggregation model in a variety of areas. Given a pool of n potential voters, the chair may strategically selecting k voters from the pool to feed to an election system, in order to control the final outcome of the election system. This type of control, called control by voter selection, is closely related to two already well-studied types of control, i.e., control by voter addition and control by voter deletion. This paper studies parameterized complexity of control by voter selection for five election systems, i.e., Maximin, Copeland^@a (0=