Hardness of candidate nomination

IF 2 3区计算机科学 Q3 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI:10.1007/s10458-023-09622-9

Katarína Cechlárová, Julien Lesca, Diana Trellová, Martina Hančová, Jozef Hanč

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We consider elections where the set of candidates is split into parties and each party can nominate just one candidate. We study the computational complexity of two problems. The Possible President problem asks whether a given party candidate can become the unique winner of the election for some nominations from other parties. The Necessary President is the problem to decide whether a given candidate will be the unique winner of the election for any possible nominations from other parties. We consider several different voting rules and show that for all of them the Possible President problem is NP-complete, even if the size of each party is at most two; for some voting rules we prove that the Necessary President is coNP-complete. Further, we formulate integer programs to solve the Possible President and Necessary President problems and test them on real and artificial data.

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候选人提名的难度

我们考虑的选举是将候选人分为几个政党，每个政党只能提名一名候选人。我们研究了两个问题的计算复杂性。“可能的总统”问题询问某一政党候选人是否能成为其他政党某些提名的唯一赢家。必要的总统是决定特定候选人是否会成为其他政党任何可能提名的唯一获胜者的问题。我们考虑了几种不同的投票规则，并表明对于所有这些规则，可能的总统问题都是NP完全的，即使每个政党的规模最多为两个；对于某些投票规则，我们证明了必要总统是coNP完备的。此外，我们制定了整数程序来解决可能的总统和必要的总统问题，并在真实数据和人工数据上进行了测试。

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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 工程技术-计算机：人工智能

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6.00

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5.30%

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>12 weeks

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