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Rules for Choosing Societal Tradeoffs
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We study the societal tradeoffs problem, where a set of voters each submit their ideal tradeoff value between each pair of activities (e.g., “using a gallon of gasoline is as bad as creating 2 bags of landfill trash”), and these are then aggregated into the societal tradeoff vector using a rule. We introduce the family of distance-based rules and show that these can be justified as maximum likelihood estimators of the truth. Within this family, we single out the logarithmic distance-based rul...
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- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ National Science Foundation
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IIS-1527434, IIS-0953756, CCF-1101659, CCF-1337215
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Publication date:
- 2016-02-21
- ISSN:
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2159-5399
- Source identifiers:
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579635
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pubs:579635
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uuid:0faa896d-a498-43c9-9d08-99a280345a18
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- pubs:579635
- Deposit date:
- 2015-12-10
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- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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