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Strategic Voting in Negotiating Teams

Leora Schmerler, Noam Hazon

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Abstract

A negotiating team is a group of two or more agents who join together as a single negotiating party because they share a common goal related to the negotiation. Since a negotiating team is composed of several stakeholders, represented as a single negotiating party, there is need for a voting rule for the team to reach decisions. In this paper, we investigate the problem of strategic voting in the context of negotiating teams. Specifically, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that finds a manipulation for a single voter when using a positional scoring rule. We show that the problem is still tractable when there is a coalition of manipulators that uses a x-approval rule. The coalitional manipulation problem becomes computationally hard when using Borda, but we provide a polynomial-time algorithm with the following guarantee: given a manipulable instance with k manipulators, the algorithm finds a successful manipulation with at most one additional manipulator. Our results hold for both constructive and destructive manipulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithmic Decision Theory - 7th International Conference, ADT 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDimitris Fotakis, David Ríos Insua
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages209-223
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030877552
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event7th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, ADT 2021 - Toulouse, France
Duration: 3 Nov 20215 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13023 LNAI

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, ADT 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period3/11/215/11/21

Keywords

  • Manipulation
  • Negotiation
  • Voting

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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