---
title: "Control in Computational Social Choice"
authors:
  - "Jiehua Chen"
  - "Joanna Kaczmarek"
  - "Paul Nüsken"
  - "Jörg Rothe"
  - "Ildikó Schlotter"
  - "Tessa Seeger"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2025/1154"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1154"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1154.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2025
pages: "10391-10399"
track: "Survey Track"
keywords:
  - "Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Cooperative games"
  - "Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Computational social choice"
  - "Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Fair division"
---

# Control in Computational Social Choice

Jiehua Chen, Joanna Kaczmarek, Paul Nüsken, Jörg Rothe, Ildikó Schlotter, Tessa Seeger

*Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 10391-10399. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2025/1154](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1154)

## Abstract

We survey the notion of control in various areas of computational social choice (COMSOC) such as voting, fair allocation, cooperative game theory, matching under preferences, and group identification. In all these scenarios, control can be exerted, for instance, by adding or deleting agents with the goal of influencing the outcome. We conclude by briefly covering control in some other COMSOC areas including participatory budgeting, judgment aggregation, and opinion diffusion.