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Making decisions based on the preferences of multiple agents

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Computer scientists have made great strides in how decision-making mechanisms are used.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 3
        March 2010
        152 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1666420
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