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Preserving consistency for liquid knapsack voting
, K. Sornat, N. Talmon
Published in International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
2021
Volume: 3
   
Pages: 1530 - 1532
Abstract
Liquid Democracy (LD) uses transitive delegations in voting. In its simplest form, it is used for binary decisions, however its promise holds also for more advanced voting settings. Here we consider LD in the context of Participatory Budgeting (PB), which is a direct democracy approach to budgeting, most usually done in municipal budgeting processes. In particular, we study Knapsack Voting, in which PB voters approve projects, such that the sum of costs of projects each voter approves must respect the budget limit. We observe possible inconsistencies, as the cost of voter-approved projects may go over the budget limit after resolving delegations. We offer ways to overcome them by studying the computational complexity of updating as few delegations as possible to arrive - after following all project delegations - to a consistent profile. © 2021 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved.
About the journal
JournalProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
ISSN15488403