Jiang, Guifei, Zhang, Dongmo and Perrussel, Laurent (2014) Judgment Aggregation with Abstentions under Voters' Hierarchy. In: 17th International Conference Pacific Rim international Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2014).

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Abstract

Similar to Arrow’s impossibility theorem for preference aggregation, judgment aggregation has also an intrinsic impossibility for generating consistent group judgment from individual judgments. Removing some of the pre-assumed conditions would mitigate the problem but may still lead to too restrictive solutions. It was proved that if completeness is removed but other plausible conditions are kept, the only possible aggregation functions are oligarchic, which means that the group judgment is purely determined by a certain subset of participating judges. Instead of further challenging the other conditions, this paper investigates how the judgment from each individual judge affects the group judgment in an oligarchic environment. We explore a set of intuitively demanded conditions under abstentions and design a feasible judgment aggregation rule based on the agents’ hierarchy. We show this proposed aggregation rule satisfies the desirable conditions. More importantly, this rule is oligarchic with respect to a subset of agenda instead of the whole agenda due to its literal-based characteristics.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Language: English
Date: 2014
Uncontrolled Keywords: Information storage and retrieval
Subjects: H- INFORMATIQUE
Divisions: Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2019 14:33
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:59
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/29977
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