Understanding Distance Measures Among Elections

Speaker(s)

Tomasz Wąs

Affiliation

Instytut Informatyki, UW

Date

April 14, 2022, 10:15 a.m.

Room

room 4050

Seminar

Seminar Games, Mechanisms, and Social Networks

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Motivated by putting empirical work based on (synthetic) election data on a more solid mathematical basis, we analyze six distances among elections, including, e.g., the challenging-to-compute but very precise swap distance and the distance used to form the so-called map of elections. Among the six, the latter seems to strike the best balance between its computational complexity and expressiveness.

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