Proportional Representation in Metric Spaces and Low-Distortion Committee Selection
Proportional Representation in Metric Spaces and Low-Distortion Committee Selection
We introduce a novel definition for a small set R of k points being "representative" of a larger set in a metric space. Given a set V (e.g., documents or voters) to represent, and a set C of possible representatives, our criterion requires that for any subset S comprising a …