Ranking by outdegree for directed graphs

نویسندگان

  • René van den Brink
  • Robert P. Gilles
چکیده

A ranking method assigns to every directed graph a (weak) ordering of the nodes. In this paper, we axiomatize the ranking method that ranks the nodes according to their outdegree. This method generalizes the ranking by Copeland score for tournaments as characterized in Rubinstein (SIAM J. Appl. Math. 38 (1980) 108–111). c © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 271  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003