PP-2018-11: Hunting for Tractable Languages for Judgment Aggregation

PP-2018-11: de Haan, Ronald (2018) Hunting for Tractable Languages for Judgment Aggregation. [Pre-print] (In Press)

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Abstract

Judgment aggregation is a general framework for collective decision making that can be used to model many different settings. Due to its general nature, the worst case complexity of essentially all relevant problems in this framework is very high. However, these intractability results are mainly due to the fact that the language to represent the aggregation domain is overly expressive. We initiate an investigation of representation languages for judgment aggregation that strike a balance between (1) being limited enough to yield computational tractability results and (2) being expressive enough to model relevant applications. In particular, we consider the languages of Krom formulas, (definite) Horn formulas, and Boolean circuits in decomposable negation normal form (DNNF). We illustrate the use of the positive complexity results that we obtain for these languages with a concrete application: voting on how to spend a budget (i.e., participatory budgeting).

Item Type: Pre-print
Report Nr: PP-2018-11
Series Name: Prepublication (PP) Series
Year: 2018
Subjects: Computation
Logic
Depositing User: Dr Ronald de Haan
Date Deposited: 16 Aug 2018 09:39
Last Modified: 16 Aug 2018 09:39
URI: https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/1619

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