Dorothea Baumeister

  1. Taking the Final Step to a Full Dichotomy of the Possible Winner Problem in Pure Scoring Rules.

    Authors: Joerg Rothe, Dorothea Baumeister
    Subjects: Computational Complexity
    Abstract

    The Possible Winner problem asks, given an election where the voters'
    preferences over the candidates are specified only partially, whether a
    designated candidate can be made win. Betzler and Dorn [1,2] proved a result
    that is only one step away from a full dichotomy of this problem for the
    important class of pure scoring rules in the case of unweighted voters and an
    unbounded number of candidates: Possible Winner is NP-complete for all pure
    scoring rules except plurality, veto, and the scoring rule with vector
    (2,1,...,1,0), but is solvable in polynomial time for plurality and veto.

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