Voting in Social Networks Export

@inproceedings{boldi_2009_voting_social_networks, abstract = {A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to takecollective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for aparticular kind of community: electronically mediatedsocial networks. In particular, we focus on delegativedemocracy (a.k.a. proxy voting) that has recently receivedincreased interest for its ability to combine the benefits ofdirect and representative systems, and that seems also perfectlysuited for electronically mediated social networks. In such acontext, we consider a voting system in which users can onlyexpress their preference for one among the people they areexplicitly connected with, and this preference can be propagatedtransitively, using an attenuation factor.We present this system and we study its properties. We also takeinto consideration the problem of missing votes, which isparticularly relevant in online networks, as somerecent case shows. Our experiments on real-world networks provideinteresting insight into the significance and stability of theresults obtained with the suggested voting system.}, author = {Boldi, Paolo and Bonchi, Francesco and Castillo, Carlos and Vigna, Sebastiano}, booktitle = {Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)}, citeulike-article-id = {6102301}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1645953.1646052}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.slideshare.net/ChaToX/voting-in-social-networks}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://chato.cl/papers/boldi_2009_voting_social_networks.pdf}, doi = {10.1145/1645953.1646052}, keywords = {social, voting}, location = {Hong Kong}, pages = {777--786}, posted-at = {2009-11-12 16:14:36}, priority = {0}, title = {Voting in Social Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1645953.1646052}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - boldi_2009_voting_social_networks L3 - citeulike-article-id:6102301 N2 - A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to takecollective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for aparticular kind of community: electronically mediatedsocial networks. In particular, we focus on delegativedemocracy (a.k.a. proxy voting) that has recently receivedincreased interest for its ability to combine the benefits ofdirect and representative systems, and that seems also perfectlysuited for electronically mediated social networks. In such acontext, we consider a voting system in which users can onlyexpress their preference for one among the people they areexplicitly connected with, and this preference can be propagatedtransitively, using an attenuation factor.We present this system and we study its properties. We also takeinto consideration the problem of missing votes, which isparticularly relevant in online networks, as somerecent case shows. Our experiments on real-world networks provideinteresting insight into the significance and stability of theresults obtained with the suggested voting system. CY - Hong Kong EP - 786 TI - Voting in Social Networks T2 - Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) SP - 777 KW - social KW - voting AU - Boldi, Paolo AU - Bonchi, Francesco AU - Castillo, Carlos AU - Vigna, Sebastiano PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1645953.1646052 ER -