Control in Computational Social Choice

Control in Computational Social Choice

Jiehua Chen, Joanna Kaczmarek, Paul Nüsken, Jörg Rothe, Ildikó Schlotter, Tessa Seeger

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey Track. Pages 10391-10399. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1154

We survey the notion of control in various areas of computational social choice (COMSOC) such as voting, fair allocation, cooperative game theory, matching under preferences, and group identification. In all these scenarios, control can be exerted, for instance, by adding or deleting agents with the goal of influencing the outcome. We conclude by briefly covering control in some other COMSOC areas including participatory budgeting, judgment aggregation, and opinion diffusion.
Keywords:
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Computational social choice
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Cooperative games
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Fair division