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选举获胜者的分布式监控

Distributed Monitoring of Election Winners

Arnold Filtser, Nimrod Talmon

摘要:

我们考虑分布式选举,其中有一个中心和$k$网站。在这种分布式选举中,每个投票者都对某组候选人有偏好,每个投票者被分配到一个站点,每个站点只知道分配给它的投票者。我们感兴趣的是设计有效的通信协议,允许中心保持一个候选人,以任意高的概率,保证是一个赢家,或至少接近成为一个赢家。我们考虑了各种单一赢家投票规则,如批准投票和评分规则的变体,基于锦标赛的投票规则,以及几个基于回合的投票规则。对于我们考虑的投票规则,我们表明,使用的通信是对数的选民人数,它是可能的中心,以保持这种近似的赢家,也就是说,在任何时候查询的中心可以立即返回一个候选人,这是保证是一个近似的赢家与高概率。我们用下限来补充我们的协议。我们的研究结果是理论性的,涉及到各种场景,如聚合客户的偏好在网上购物网站或连锁超市,并收集来自不同的投票站的政治选举的选票。

英文摘要:

We consider distributed elections, where there is a center and $k$ sites. In such distributed elections, each voter has preferences over some set of candidates, and each voter is assigned to exactly one site such that each site is aware only of the voters assigned to it. The center is able to directly communicate with all sites. We are interested in designing communication-efficient protocols, allowing the center to maintain a candidate which, with arbitrarily high probability, is guaranteed to be a winner, or at least close to being a winner. We consider various single-winner voting rules, such as variants of Approval voting and scoring rules, tournament-based voting rules, and several round-based voting rules. For the voting rules we consider, we show that, using communication which is logarithmic in the number of voters, it is possible for the center to maintain such approximate winners; that is, upon a query at any time the center can immediately return a candidate which is guaranteed to be an approximate winner with high probability. We complement our protocols with lower bounds. Our results are theoretical in nature and relate to various scenarios, such as aggregating customer preferences in online shopping websites or supermarket chains and collecting votes from different polling stations of political elections.

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