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SUMMARY:Optimal social choice functions: A utilitarian view
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Soumyajit Pyne\n\nAbstract: \nThe authors adopt a util
 itarian perspective on social choice\, assuming that agents have (possibly
  latent) utility functions over some space of alternatives. For many reaso
 ns one might consider mechanisms\, or social choice functions\, that only 
 have access to the ordinal rankings of alternatives by the individual agen
 ts rather than their utility functions. In this context\, one possible obj
 ective for a social choice function is the maximization of (expected) soci
 al welfare relative to the information contained in these rankings. In the
  talk\, we will focus on the worst case model (distortion) of the paper.\n
 The link of the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S
 0004370215000892\n
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