{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"What Do We Elect Committees For? A Voting Committee Model for Multi-Winner Rules","authors":[{"name":"Piotr Krzysztof Skowron","slug":"piotr-krzysztof-skowron","given":"Piotr Krzysztof","family":"Skowron","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"We present a new model that describes the process of electing a group of representatives (e.g., a parliament) for a group of voters. In this model, called the voting committee model, the elected group of representatives runs a number of ballots to make final decisions regarding various issues. The satisfaction of voters comes from the final decisions made by the elected committee. Our results suggest that depending on a single-winner election system used by the committee to make these final decisions, different multi-winner election rules are most suitable for electing the committee. Furthermore, we show that if we allow not only a committee, but also an election rule used to make final decisions, to depend on the voters' preferences, we can obtain an even better representation of the voters.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/165","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0165.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/165.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/165","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Multiagent Systems","track":"Main Track","number":165,"pages":{"first":1141,"last":1147},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}