Voting with social influence: Using arguments to uncover ground truth

Alan Tsang, John A. Doucette, Hadi Hosseini

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Abstract

In certain voting problems, a hidden ground truth is inferred by aggregating the opinions of an electorate. We propose a novel model of these underlying social interactions, and derive maximum likelihood estimators for the ground truth in these models, given the social network and votes. We also evaluate these new estimators, as well as existing ones, on a class of simulated social networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAAMAS 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
EditorsRafael H. Bordini, Pinar Yolum, Edith Elkind, Gerhard Weiss
PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages1841-1842
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450337717
StatePublished - 2015
Event14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: May 4 2015May 8 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Volume3
ISSN (Print)1548-8403
ISSN (Electronic)1558-2914

Other

Other14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period5/4/155/8/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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