Publications

Working Papers

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• Collective Decision Making with a Few Coin Flips

  By Mohamad Latifian
  Working paper. Under submission to AAMAS '27.
  
  
• Metric Distortion with Graph Objectives

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi, Mohamad Latifian, and Mohammad Sharify
  Working paper. Under submission to AAMAS '27.
  
  
• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Multiwinner Voting Paper

  By Mohamad Latifian, Marzieh Nilipour, and Alexandros Voudouris
  Working paper. Under submission to AAMAS '27.
  
  
• Envy-Free Cake-Cutting for Five Agents

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Alexandros Hollender, Mohamad Latifian, and Giannis Tyrovolas
  Working paper.
  
  

2026 + Forthcoming

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• Computational Aspects of Distortion Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In JAAMAS: Forthcoming in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
  
  
• Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, Emma Rewinski, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In AIJ: Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Nash Equilibria in Auctions with Pacing Strategies: Complexity and Inefficiency Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Charalampos Kokkalis, and Mohamad Latifian
  In WINE '26: Proc. of the 22nd Conference on Web and Internet Economics (Forthcoming).
  
  
• Social Deliberation: Democratic Deliberation Through Unbiased Social Interactions Paper

  By Dana Afazeli, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In WWW '26: Proc. of the ACM Web Conference 2026.
  
  
• Metric Distortion with Preference Intensities Paper

  By Mehrad Abbaszadeh, Ali Ansarifar, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In AAAI '26: Proc. of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  

2025

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• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching Paper

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In JAAMAS: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
  
  
• Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, Emma Rewinski, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In IJCAI '25: Proc. of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Temporal Fair Division of Indivisible Items Paper

  By Edith Elkind, Alexander Lam, Mohamad Latifian, Tzeh Yuan Neoh, and Nicholas Teh
  In AAMAS '25: Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  
  
• Towards Fair and Efficient Public Transportation: A Bus Stop Model Paper

  By Martin Bullinger, Edith Elkind, and Mohamad Latifian
  In AAMAS '25: Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  
  
• Fair Division with Market Values Paper

  By Siddharth Barman, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '25: Proc. of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Public Spirited Participatory Budgeting Paper

  By Mark Bedaywi, Bailey Flanigan, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '25: Proc. of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  

2024

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• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching Paper

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In IJCAI '24: Proc. of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Computational Aspects of Distortion Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAMAS '24: Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  
  

2023

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• Explainable and Efficient Randomized Voting Rules

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In NeurIPS '23: Proc. of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
  
  
• Best of Both Distortion Worlds Paper

  By Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In EC '23: Proc. of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
  
  
• The Distortion of Approval Voting with Runoff Paper

  By Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAMAS '23: Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  
  
• Voting with Preference Intensities Paper

  By Anson Khang, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '23: Proc. of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  

2022

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• Distortion in Voting with Top-t Preferences

  By Allan Borodin, Daniel Halpern, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In IJCAI '22: Proc. of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  

2021

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• Almost Envy-freeness, Envy-rank, and Nash Social Welfare Matchings Paper

  By Alireza Farhadi, Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi, Mohamad Latifian, Masoud Seddighin, and Hadi Yami
  In AAAI '21: Proc. of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• On the Distortion Value of Elections with Abstention Paper

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
  
  

2020

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• Resource-Aware Protocols for Network Cost-Sharing Games Paper Video

  By George Christodoulou, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, and Alkmini Sgouritsa
  In EC '20: Proc. of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
  
  

2019

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• On the Distortion Value of the Elections with Abstention Paper

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In AAAI '19: Proc. of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  

2018

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• Rent Division Among Groups Video

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, Arman Mohammadi, Sadra Moradian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In COCOA '18: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications.