Aggregating preferences in multi-issue domains by using maximum likelihood estimators

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 399-406

  Xia, Lirong ^a   Conitzer, Vincent ^a   Lang, Jérôme ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Computational social choice; Distance based models; Maximum likelihood estimator; Voting in multi issue domains

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AXIOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL CHOICES; DECOMPOSABILITY; DISTANCE-BASED MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MULTI-ISSUE; SEQUENTIAL VOTING; WINNER DETERMINATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650911969     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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