{"id":422,"date":"2012-08-20T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/217.76.133.156\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:50:26","slug":"logic-and-social-choice-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Logic and Social Choice Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished an introduction to <a title=\"Social Choice Theory\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~ulle\/pubs\/files\/EndrissLPT2011.pdf\">social choice theory<\/a> as the formal study of mechanisms for collective decision making. The article presents all the required background to start in this discipline. I reached this paper through the website of <a title=\"UVA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.science.uva.nl\">UVA<\/a>\u00a0and I consider that the concepts presented in the paper could be applied to a lot of use cases, for instance matchmaking of organizations and public contracts or maybe to mediation in Linked Data. Now I am also very interested in works related to &#8220;<a title=\"The Wisdom of Crowds\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds\">The Wisdom of Crowds<\/a>&#8221; and, on the best of my knowledge, this kind of research and tools can help to validate the results generated by a crowd. There are also other relevant concepts and definitions I did not know (in this context) such as:\u00a0<em>dictatorship, liberalism, positive responsiveness or manipulation<\/em> among others .\u00a0Furthermore, author presents somo logic concepts that have emerged to support social choice theory with a formal syntax and semantics. Thus there are approches based on FOL, HOL and others trying to formalize the underlying concepts of this theory. I would like to highlight the &#8220;<a title=\"Doctrinal Paradox\" href=\"http:\/\/personal.lse.ac.uk\/list\/doctrinalparadox.htm\">Doctrinal Paradox<\/a>&#8221; that makes me feel uncomfortable with existing methods of judging\u00a0being that using a &#8220;<em>premise-based procedure<\/em>&#8221; or a &#8220;<em>conclusion-based procedure<\/em>&#8221; to get a decision, the final result can change although both procedures are correct!<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in this kind of work or research, you can follow the Autumm Course about<a title=\"Computational Social Choice\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~ulle\/teaching\/comsoc\/2011\/\"> Computational Social Choice<\/a>\u00a0teached by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.illc.uva.nl\/~ulle\/\">Ulle Endriss<\/a>\u00a0as part of a Logics master.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in touch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/?p=422\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Logic and Social Choice Theory\"><p>I just finished an introduction to social choice theory as the formal study of mechanisms for collective decision making. The article presents all the required background to start in this discipline. I reached this paper through the website of UVA\u00a0and I consider that the concepts presented in the paper could be applied to a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[79,103,107,11,38,108,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-research-blog","7":"tag-algorithms","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-logics","10":"tag-research","11":"tag-researcher","12":"tag-social-choice","13":"tag-uva","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemalvarez.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}