Tournaments are a widely used mechanism to rank alternatives in a noisy environment. This
paper investigates a fundamental issue of economics in tournament design: what is the best …

The paper suggests a family of paired comparison-based scoring procedures for ranking the
participants of a Swiss system chess team tournament. We present the challenges of ranking …

In this paper, I report some investigation discussing team selection, whence hierarchy,
through ranking indicators, for example when “measuring” professional cyclist team's …

Decision tree learning is among the most popular and most traditional families of machine
learning algorithms. While these techniques excel in being quite intuitive and interpretable …

Label Ranking (LR) is an emerging non-standard supervised classification problem with
practical applications in different research fields. The Label Ranking task aims at building …

One examines and discusses proposals on whether riders could be replaced in a team
during multi-stage races, and how much a team final time at the end of the race would …

Political knowledge is one of the most important constructs for political behavior research,
although scholars often ignore how general knowledge translates into specific information …

We propose a unifying approach to the problem of measuring the inconsistency of
judgments. More precisely, we define a general framework to allow several well-known …

We propose a class of semimetrics for acyclic preference relations, any one of which is an
alternative to the classical Kemeny-Snell-Bogart metric. These semimetrics are based solely …

The well-known swap distance (Kemeny, 1959; Kendall, 1938 and Hamming, 1950) is
analyzed. On weak preferences, this function was characterized by Kemeny (1959) with five …