Social Choice Theory as a Foundation for Multiagent Systems
Ulle Endriss

Abstract:
Social choice theory is the study of mechanisms for collective 
decision making. While originally concerned with modelling and
analysing political decision making in groups of people, its basic 
principles, arguably, are equally relevant to modelling and analysing 
the kinds of interaction taking place in a multiagent system. In 
support of this position, I review examples from three strands of 
research in social choice theory: fair division, voting, and judgment 
aggregation.