Measuring Diversity of Preferences in a Group

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • T. Schaub
  • G. Friedrich
  • B. O'Sullivan
Book title ECAI 2014
Book subtitle 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 18-22 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic: including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014): proceedings
ISBN
  • 9781614994183
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781614994190
Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Event ECAI 2014: 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pages (from-to) 423-428
Publisher Amsterdam: IOS Press
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We introduce a general framework for measuring the degree of diversity in the preferences held by the members of a group. We formalise and investigate three specific approaches within that framework: diversity as the range of distinct views held, diversity as aggregate distance between individual views, and diversity as distance of the group's views to a single compromise view. While similarly attractive from an intuitive point of view, the three approaches display significant differences when analysed using both the axiomatic method and empirical studies.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-423
Downloads
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