How Hard Is It for a Party to Nominate an Election Winner?

Abstract

We consider a Plurality-voting scenario, where the candidates are split between parties, and each party nominates exactly one candidate for the final election. We study the computational complexity of deciding if there is a set of nominees such that a candidate from a given party wins in the final election. In our second problem, the goal is to decide if a candidate from a given party always wins, irrespective who is nominated. We show that these problems are computationally hard, but are polynomial-time solvable for restricted settings. PDF

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Text

Faliszewski et al. "How Hard Is It for a Party to Nominate an Election Winner?." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.

Markdown

[Faliszewski et al. "How Hard Is It for a Party to Nominate an Election Winner?." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2016/faliszewski2016ijcai-hard/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{faliszewski2016ijcai-hard,
  title     = {{How Hard Is It for a Party to Nominate an Election Winner?}},
  author    = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Gourvès, Laurent and Lang, Jérôme and Lesca, Julien and Monnot, Jérôme},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {257-263},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2016/faliszewski2016ijcai-hard/}
}