This paper presents a multiple criteria decision aiding approach in order to build a ranking and suggest a choice 2 on a set of alternatives. The partial evaluations of the alternatives on the points of view can be fuzzy numbers. The aggregation is performed through the use of a fuzzy extension of the Choquet integral. We detail how to assess the parameters of the aggregator by using alternativ...

This paper deals with the problem of ranking several alternatives on the basis of a valued preference relation. We present a system of axioms which is shown to characterize a ranking method based on the Min operator that has been introduced in the literature. IIntroduction In order to compare a number of alternatives taking into account several criteria, many aggregation methods (e.g. ELECTRE I...

Decision making is the crucial step in many real applications such as organization management, financial planning, products evaluation and recommendation. Rational decision making is to select an alternative from a set of different ones which has the best utility (i.e., maximally satisfies given criteria, objectives, or preferences). In many cases, decision making is to order alternatives and s...

Abstract Ranking aggregation, studied in the field of social choice theory, focuses on combination information with aim determining a winning ranking among some alternatives when preferences voters are expressed by ordering possible from most to least preferred. One famous aggregation methods can be traced back 1959, Kemeny introduces measure distance between and opinion gathered profile rankin...

W consider the Bayesian ranking and selection problem, in which one wishes to allocate an information collection budget as efficiently as possible to choose the best among several alternatives. In this problem, the marginal value of information is not concave, leading to algorithmic difficulties and apparent paradoxes. Among these paradoxes is that when there are many identical alternatives, it...

We discuss how information about diversity of alternatives may affect our judgments about an individual’s freedom of choice as reflected in the available set of alternatives. We provide an axiomatic characterization of a similarity-based rule for ranking alternative opportunity sets in terms of the individual’s freedom of choice.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

We present a novel approach for language identification based on a text categorization technique, namely an n-gram frequency ranking. We use a Parallel phone recognizer, the same as in PPRLM, but instead of the language model, we create a ranking with the most frequent n-grams, keeping only a fraction of them. Then we compute the distance between the input sentence ranking and each language ran...

Condorcet (1785) initiated the statistical approach to vote aggregation. Two centuries later, Young (1988) showed that a correct application of the maximum likelihood principle leads to the selection of rankings called Kemeny orders, which have the minimal total number of disagreements with those of the voters. The Condorcet-Kemeny-Young approach is based on the assumption that the voters have ...