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<article-title>Reasoning about Judgment and Preference Aggregation</article-title>
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<author><a href="mailto:tag@hib.no"><name>Thomas &#197;gotnes</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Computer Engineering<br/> Bergen University College PB. 7030, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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<author><a href="mailto:wiebe@csc.liv.ac.uk"><name>Wiebe van der Hoek</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Computer Science<br/>University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZF, UK
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<author><a href="mailto:mjw@csc.liv.ac.uk"><name>Michael Wooldridge</name></a></author>
<aff>Department of Computer Science<br/> University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZF, UK


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<p>Agents that must reach agreements with other agents need to reason
about how their preferences, judgments, and beliefs might be
aggregated with those of others by the social choice mechanisms
that govern their interactions. The recently emerging field of <italic>judgment
aggregation</italic> studies aggregation from a <italic>logical</italic> perspective,
and considers how multiple sets of logical formulae can be aggregated
to a single consistent set. As a special case, judgment
aggregation can be seen to subsume classical preference aggregation.
We present a modal logic that is intended to support reasoning
about judgment aggregation scenarios (and hence, as a special case,
about preference aggregation): the logical language is interpreted
directly in judgment aggregation rules. We present a sound and
complete axiomatisation of such rules. We show that the logic can
express aggregation rules such as majority voting; rule properties
such as independence; and results such as the discursive paradox,
Arrow's theorem and Condorcet's paradox &#8211; which are derivable
as formal theorems of the logic. The logic is parameterised in such
a way that it can be used as a general framework for comparing
the logical properties of different types of aggregation-including
classical preference aggregation.</p>
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