The Complexity of Proportionality Degree in Committee Elections

No. 5: AAAI-22 Technical Tracks 5

Volume

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36

AAAI Technical Track on Game Theory and Economic Paradigms

Over the last few years, researchers have put significant effort into understanding of the notion of proportional representation in committee election. In particular, recently they have proposed the notion of proportionality degree. We study the complexity of computing committees with a given proportionality degree and of testing if a given committee provides a particular one. This way, we complement recent studies that mostly focused on the notion of (extended) justified representation. We also study the problems of testing if a cohesive group of a given size exists and of counting such groups.

10.1609/aaai.v36i5.20442