TY - GEN
T1 - Inferring true voting outcomes in homophilic social networks
AU - Doucette, John A.
AU - Tsang, Alan
AU - Hosseini, Hadi
AU - Larson, Kate
AU - Cohen, Robin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Consider a soccer game with spectators in a stadium acting as voters. The spectators are polled to determine whether a ball has crossed a line. Either the ball has crossed, or it has not, but the opinions of individual voters regarding the truth of the matter may differ because of their differing perspectives on the event. Voters positioned far from the event may be unable to accurately assess the outcome compared to those positioned nearby. In practice, however, voters' opinions may not be independently distributed. For example, the voters may talk among themselves before their opinions are gathered. This can distort the distribution of opinions, and introduce correlations into voter reports, preventing recovery of the true outcome. For example, if an announcer states that the ball did cross the line, then voters who did not observe this may report this authoritative opinion rather than their own.
AB - Consider a soccer game with spectators in a stadium acting as voters. The spectators are polled to determine whether a ball has crossed a line. Either the ball has crossed, or it has not, but the opinions of individual voters regarding the truth of the matter may differ because of their differing perspectives on the event. Voters positioned far from the event may be unable to accurately assess the outcome compared to those positioned nearby. In practice, however, voters' opinions may not be independently distributed. For example, the voters may talk among themselves before their opinions are gathered. This can distort the distribution of opinions, and introduce correlations into voter reports, preventing recovery of the true outcome. For example, if an announcer states that the ball did cross the line, then voters who did not observe this may report this authoritative opinion rather than their own.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
SP - 2137
EP - 2139
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2020
A2 - An, Bo
A2 - El Fallah Seghrouchni, Amal
A2 - Sukthankar, Gita
PB - International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
T2 - 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2020
Y2 - 19 May 2020
ER -