Possible Winners when New Candidates Are Added: The Case of Scoring Rules

Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 762-767

  Chevaleyre, Yann ^a   Lang, Jérôme ^a   Maudet, Nicolas ^a   Monnot, Jérôme ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY RESULTS; FIXED NUMBERS; POSSIBLE WINNER PROBLEMS; SCORING RULES;

EID: 85056022440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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