Review of Handbook of Computational Social Choice Edited by Felix Brandt, Vincent Conitzer, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, and Ariel D. Procaccia

Abstract

Social choice theory is an area of economics that studies collective decision making. It provides mathematical models and guidelines for making the right choices. Examples of collective decision making include sharing a cake among friends and voting in an election. Computational social choice is a discipline which may be considered to be at the crossroads of economics and computer science. This handbook on computational social choice deals with the computational aspects of collective decision making. It contains contributions from thirty-six eminent researchers in the field of computational social choice. The key areas covered by the book are voting, fair allocation of divisible as well as indivisible goods, coalition formation, and miscellaneous topics such as judgement aggregation and knockout tournaments. The book is available in hardcover and Adobe eBook Reader formats. The ISBNs are 9781107060432 (hardcover) and 9781316490631 (ebook). They are priced at US $59.99 and US $48, respectively.