The rise of computational social choice indicates that a computer-science perspective can contribute to our understanding of collective decision making. In this thesis, we show how substantial insights can be achieved via computer-aided methods that are based on powerful solving techniques, such as SAT and SMT (satisfiability modulo theories). Our contribution is twofold: first and foremost, we provide such methods for the domain of social choice theory, and, second, use these methods to obtain a set of novel results that are of independent interest.
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The rise of computational social choice indicates that a computer-science perspective can contribute to our understanding of collective decision making. In this thesis, we show how substantial insights can be achieved via computer-aided methods that are based on powerful solving techniques, such as SAT and SMT (satisfiability modulo theories). Our contribution is twofold: first and foremost, we provide such methods for the domain of social choice theory, and, second, use these methods to obtain...
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