Opinion Diffusion and Campaigning on Society Graphs

Opinion Diffusion and Campaigning on Society Graphs

Piotr Faliszewski, Rica Gonen, Martin Koutecký, Nimrod Talmon

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 219-225. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/30

We study the effects of campaigning, where the society is partitioned into voter clusters and a diffusion process propagates opinions in a network connecting those clusters. Our model is very general and can incorporate many campaigning actions, various partitions of the society into voter clusters, and very general diffusion processes. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that computing the cheapest campaign for rigging a given election can usually be done efficiently, even with arbitrarily-many voters.
Keywords:
Constraints and SAT: Modeling;Formulation
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Computational Social Choice
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Voting