Clone structures in voters' preferences

• Main Authors: Elkind, Edith, Faliszewski, Piotr, Slinko, Arkadii
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98923; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12634
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In elections, a set of candidates ranked consecutively (though possibly in different order) by all voters is called a clone set, and its members are called clones. A clone structure is the family of all clone sets of a given election. In this paper we study properties of clone structures. In particu...