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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.95

Fault Tolerance in Euclidean Committee Selection

Authors: Chinmay Sonar, Subhash Suri, and Jie Xue

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)

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In the committee selection problem, the goal is to choose a subset of size k from a set of candidates C that collectively gives the best representation to a set of voters. We consider this problem in Euclidean d-space where each voter/candidate is a point and voters' preferences are implicitly represented by Euclidean distances to candidates. We explore fault-tolerance in committee selection and study the following three variants: (1) given a committee and a set of f failing candidates, find their optimal replacement; (2) compute the worst-case replacement score for a given committee under failure of f candidates; and (3) design a committee with the best replacement score under worst-case failures. The score of a committee is determined using the well-known (min-max) Chamberlin-Courant rule: minimize the maximum distance between any voter and its closest candidate in the committee. Our main results include the following: (1) in one dimension, all three problems can be solved in polynomial time; (2) in dimension d ≥ 2, all three problems are NP-hard; and (3) all three problems admit a constant-factor approximation in any fixed dimension, and the optimal committee problem has an FPT bicriterion approximation.

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Chinmay Sonar, Subhash Suri, and Jie Xue. Fault Tolerance in Euclidean Committee Selection. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 95:1-95:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{sonar_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.95,
  author =	{Sonar, Chinmay and Suri, Subhash and Xue, Jie},
  title =	{{Fault Tolerance in Euclidean Committee Selection}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{95:1--95:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.95},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187489},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.95},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multiwinner elections, Fault tolerance, Geometric Hitting Set, EPTAS}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.32

Anonymity-Preserving Space Partitions

Authors: Úrsula Hébert-Johnson, Chinmay Sonar, Subhash Suri, and Vaishali Surianarayanan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 212, 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)

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We consider a multidimensional space partitioning problem, which we call Anonymity-Preserving Partition. Given a set P of n points in ℝ^d and a collection H of m axis-parallel hyperplanes, the hyperplanes of H partition the space into an arrangement A(H) of rectangular cells. Given an integer parameter t > 0, we call a cell C in this arrangement deficient if 0 < |C ∩ P| < t; that is, the cell contains at least one but fewer than t data points of P. Our problem is to remove the minimum number of hyperplanes from H so that there are no deficient cells. We show that the problem is NP-complete for all dimensions d ≥ 2. We present a polynomial-time d-approximation algorithm, for any fixed d, and we also show that the problem can be solved exactly in time (2d-0.924)^k m^O(1) + O(n), where k is the solution size. The one-dimensional case of the problem, where all hyperplanes are parallel, can be solved optimally in polynomial time, but we show that a related Interval Anonymity problem is NP-complete even in one dimension.

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Úrsula Hébert-Johnson, Chinmay Sonar, Subhash Suri, and Vaishali Surianarayanan. Anonymity-Preserving Space Partitions. In 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 212, pp. 32:1-32:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{hebertjohnson_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.32,
  author =	{H\'{e}bert-Johnson, \'{U}rsula and Sonar, Chinmay and Suri, Subhash and Surianarayanan, Vaishali},
  title =	{{Anonymity-Preserving Space Partitions}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-214-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{212},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154654},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Anonymity, Hitting Set, LP, Constant Approximation, Fixed-Parameter Tractable, Space Partitions, Parameterized Complexity}
}

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