Using Liquid Democracy For Attention-Aware Social Choice

Using Liquid Democracy For Attention-Aware Social Choice

Shiri Alouf-Heffetz

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Doctoral Consortium. Pages 7069-7070. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/809

My PhD research deals with the use of Liquid Democracy (LD) for social choice scenarios, while considering the scarcity of attention as a driving factor. My aim is to better understand LD: theoretically as well as practically; in particular, by establishing containment in certain computational classes for corresponding combinatorial problems, suggesting methods to improve the use of LD, and understand its adaptation to specific scenarios. Concretely, I consider the use of LD as a solution for the problem of low voter attention in light of the high cognitive effort needed by voters to actively participate in voting processes.
Keywords:
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Computational social choice
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Agent societies
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Agent-based simulation and emergence
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Applications