The control complexity of r-Approval: From the single-peaked case to the general case

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Highlights:

• We obtain dichotomy results for r-Approval control problems in k-peaked elections.

• We show that many r-Approval control problems are NP-hard in 2,3-peaked elections.

• We obtain FPT and W-hardness results with respect to the solution size.

• We show that every graph of maximum degree 3 has a special 2-interval representation.

• We develop an FPT-algorithm for a generalization of the r-Set Packing problem.

摘要

•We obtain dichotomy results for r-Approval control problems in k-peaked elections.•We show that many r-Approval control problems are NP-hard in 2,3-peaked elections.•We obtain FPT and W-hardness results with respect to the solution size.•We show that every graph of maximum degree 3 has a special 2-interval representation.•We develop an FPT-algorithm for a generalization of the r-Set Packing problem.

论文关键词:Single-peaked elections,Multipeaked elections,Approval voting,Control,Parameterized complexity

论文评审过程:Received 12 August 2016, Revised 30 April 2017, Accepted 10 June 2017, Available online 21 June 2017, Version of Record 7 August 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2017.06.004