Review of Trends in Computational Social Choice Edited by Ulle Endriss

Abstract

Social choice theory is an area of economics that studies collective decision making. Examples of collective decision making include sharing a cake or a resource among a group of people or friends, tallying votes in an election, and aggregating opinions of various experts. Computational social choice is a discipline which may be considered to be at the intersection of economics and computer science. This book deals with recent trends related to computational aspects of collective decision making. It contains contributions of experts in computational social choice. The book is divided into three parts that focus on scenarios, techniques, and applications, respectively. It has been published as a sequel to the Handbook of Computational Social Choice, Cambridge University Press, 2016, recently reviewed by me in this column (SIGACT News 48(4), December 2017, pp. 13-17). Ulle Endriss, the editor of this book, was also an editor of the Handbook. This book has been published by AI Access, a not-for-profit publisher. It is available for free online at the URL http://research.illc.uva.nl/COST-IC1205/Book/, and the hard copy is very nominally priced. The book's publication