[AI Seminar] ai-seminar-announce Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

[Adams Wei Yu]

This is a reminder that the talk will be tomorrow noon, Jan 17.

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>    1.  AI Lunch -- Swaprava Nath -- January 17 (Adams Wei Yu)
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> Dear faculty and students,
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> We look forward to seeing you Next Tuesday, January 17, at noon in NSH 3305
> for the *first* AI lunch this semester. To learn more about the seminar and
> lunch, please visit
> the AI Lunch webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
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> On Tuesday, Swaprava Nath <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~swapravn/> will give a
> talk titled ?Preference Elicitation For Participatory Budgeting?.
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> *Abstract:* Participatory budgeting enables the allocation of public funds
> by collecting and aggregating individual preferences; it has already had a
> sizable real-world impact. But making the most of this new paradigm
> requires a rethinking of some of the basics of computational social choice,
> including the very way in which individuals express their preferences. We
> analytically compare four preference elicitation methods -- knapsack votes,
> rankings by value or value for money, and threshold approval votes --
> through the lens of implicit utilitarian voting, and find that threshold
> approval votes are qualitatively superior. This conclusion is supported by
> experiments using data from real participatory budgeting elections.
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> This is a joint work with Gerdus Benade, Ariel D. Procaccia, and Nisarg
> Shah.
> Forthcoming in AAAI 2017.
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