TY - GEN
T1 - Haste makes waste
T2 - 16th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2017
AU - Yosef, David Ben
AU - Naamani-Dery, Lihi
AU - Obraztsova, Svetlana
AU - Rabinovich, Zinovi
AU - Bannikova, Marina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/8/23
Y1 - 2017/8/23
N2 - Voting is a common way to reach a group decision. When possible, voters will attempt to vote strategically, in order to optimize their satisfaction from the outcome. Previous research has modelled how rational voter agents (bots) vote to maximize their personal utility in an iterative voting process that has a deadline (a timeout). However, it remains an open question whether human beings behave rationally when faced with the same settings. The focus of this paper is therefore to examine how the deadline factor affects manipulative behavior in real-world scenarios were humans are required to reach a decision before a deadline. An On-line platform was built to enable voting games by all types of users: Agents (bots), humans, and mixed games with both humans and agents. We compare the results of human behavior and bot behavior and conclude that it might be wise to allow bots to make (certain) decisions on our behalf.
AB - Voting is a common way to reach a group decision. When possible, voters will attempt to vote strategically, in order to optimize their satisfaction from the outcome. Previous research has modelled how rational voter agents (bots) vote to maximize their personal utility in an iterative voting process that has a deadline (a timeout). However, it remains an open question whether human beings behave rationally when faced with the same settings. The focus of this paper is therefore to examine how the deadline factor affects manipulative behavior in real-world scenarios were humans are required to reach a decision before a deadline. An On-line platform was built to enable voting games by all types of users: Agents (bots), humans, and mixed games with both humans and agents. We compare the results of human behavior and bot behavior and conclude that it might be wise to allow bots to make (certain) decisions on our behalf.
KW - Collective decision making
KW - Consensus
KW - Deadline
KW - Social choice
KW - Voting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031044717&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3106426.3106532
DO - 10.1145/3106426.3106532
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AN - SCOPUS:85031044717
T3 - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2017
SP - 419
EP - 425
BT - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2017
Y2 - 23 August 2017 through 26 August 2017
ER -