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To obtain reliable results of expertise, which usually use individual and group expert pairwise comparisons, it is important to summarize (aggregate) expert estimates provided that they are sufficiently consistent. There are several ways to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-07 Vitaliy Tsyganok , Andriy Olenko , Pavlo Roik , Oksana Vlasenko

The pairwise comparisons method is a convenient tool used when the relative order of preferences among different concepts (alternatives) needs to be determined. There are several popular implementations of this method, including the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Konrad Kułakowski

Confronted with the challenge of identifying the most suitable metric to validate the merits of newly proposed models, the decision-making process is anything but straightforward. Given that comparing rankings introduces its own set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Chiara Balestra , Andreas Mayr , Emmanuel Müller

This study considers the method to derive a ranking of alternatives by aggregating the rankings submitted by several individuals who may not evaluate all of them. The collection of subsets of alternatives that individuals (can) evaluate is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-09-18 Yasunori Okumura

After the phenomenal success of the PageRank algorithm, many researchers have extended the PageRank approach to ranking graphs with richer structures beside the simple linkage structure. In some scenarios we have to deal with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Gianna M. Del Corso , Francesco Romani

Estimating missing judgements is a key component in many multi-criteria decision making techniques, especially in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Inspired by the Koczkodaj inconsistency index and a widely used solution concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kolos Csaba Ágoston , László Csató

We consider the problem of statistical inference for ranking data, specifically rank aggregation, under the assumption that samples are incomplete in the sense of not comprising all choice alternatives. In contrast to most existing methods,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Mohsen Ahmadi Fahandar , Eyke Hüllermeier , Inés Couso

A common problem in machine learning is to rank a set of n items based on pairwise comparisons. Here ranking refers to partitioning the items into sets of pre-specified sizes according to their scores, which includes identification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Reinhard Heckel , Max Simchowitz , Kannan Ramchandran , Martin J. Wainwright

One of the major challenges for collective intelligence is inconsistency, which is unavoidable whenever subjective assessments are involved. Pairwise comparisons allow one to represent such subjective assessments and to process them by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-06 J. Fueloep , W. W. Koczkodaj , S. J. Szarek

The pairwise winning indices, computed in the Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis, give the probability with which an alternative is preferred to another taking into account all the instances of the assumed preference model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Sally Giuseppe Arcidiacono , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

Several methods of preference modeling, ranking, voting and multi-criteria decision making include pairwise comparisons. It is usually simpler to compare two objects at a time, furthermore, some relations (e.g., the outcome of sports…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 László Gyarmati , Éva Orbán-Mihálykó , Csaba Mihálykó , Sándor Bozóki , Zsombor Szádoczki

Analyzing the consistency of preferences is an important step in decision making with pairwise comparison matrices, and several indices have been proposed in order to estimate it. In this paper we prove the proportionality between some…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-03-30 Matteo Brunelli , Andrew Critch , Michele Fedrizzi

The pairwise comparisons method is a convenient tool used when the relative order among different concepts (alternatives) needs to be determined. One popular implementation of the method is based on solving an eigenvalue problem for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Konrad Kułakowski

Indices quantifying the performance of classifiers under class-imbalance, often suffer from distortions depending on the constitution of the test set or the class-specific classification accuracy, creating difficulties in assessing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sankha Subhra Mullick , Shounak Datta , Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Swagatam Das

Since there exist several completion methods to estimate the missing entries of pairwise comparison matrices, practitioners face a difficult task in choosing the best technique. Our paper contributes to this issue: we consider a special set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 László Csató

In unsupervised machine learning, agreement between partitions is commonly assessed with so-called external validity indices. Researchers tend to use and report indices that quantify agreement between two partitions for all clusters…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-08 Matthijs J. Warrens , Hanneke van der Hoef

Many cluster similarity indices are used to evaluate clustering algorithms, and choosing the best one for a particular task remains an open problem. We demonstrate that this problem is crucial: there are many disagreements among the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Martijn Gösgens , Alexey Tikhonov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

When creating the ranking based on the pairwise comparisons very often, we face difficulties in completing all the results of direct comparisons. In this case, the solution is to use the ranking method based on the incomplete PC matrix. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Konrad Kułakowski

We consider methods for aggregating preferences that are based on the resolution of discrete optimization problems. The preferences are represented by arbitrary binary relations (possibly weighted) or incomplete paired comparison matrices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Chebotarev , Elena Shamis

A ranking is an ordered sequence of items, in which an item with higher ranking score is more preferred than the items with lower ranking scores. In many information systems, rankings are widely used to represent the preferences over a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Zhiwei Lin , Yi Li , Xiaolian Guo