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Ranking as parameter estimation

SYSNO ASEP	0319720
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Ranking as parameter estimation
Title	Hodnocení jako odhadování parametrů
Author(s)	Kárný, Miroslav (UTIA-B)_{RID, ORCID} Guy, Tatiana Valentine (UTIA-B)_{RID, ORCID}
Source Title	International Journal of Operational Research - ISSN 1745-7645 Roč. 4, č. 2 (2009), s. 142-158
Number of pages	17 s.
Publication form	www - www
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	ranking ; Bayesian estimation ; negotiation ; modelling
Subject RIV	BB - Applied Statistics, Operational Research
R&D Projects	2C06001 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
	1ET100750401 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR)
	1M0572 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ	AV0Z10750506 - UTIA-B (2005-2011)
DOI	10.1504/IJOR.2009.022597
Annotation	Ranking of alternatives is a common, difficult and repeatedly addressed problem, especially when it requires negotiation of experts. The celebrated Arrow’s impossibility theorem expresses formally its difficulty. In spite of the progress made by adopting soft ranking, the problem is far from being generically solved. The paper provides a, probably novel, problem formulation by viewing ranking of alternatives as an estimation of an unknown objective ranking vector. The idea is exposed on a specific task of ranking quality of projects by a large group of experts. The task is important on its own but the proposed methodology is the main message worth of generalisation and use in other application domains.
Workplace	Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Contact	Markéta Votavová, votavova@utia.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 052 201.
Year of Publishing	2009

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