This paper presents a general model for aggregating votes from a preferential ballot. The thrust of the model is to accord each candidate a fair assessment in terms of his overall standing vis-a-vis first place, second place, ..., kth place votes. The form of the model is a combined index \Sigma...

Cook and Kress (Cook, Wade D., Moshe Kress. 1985. Ordinal ranking with intensity of preference. Management Sci. 31 (1) 26--32.) present a model for representing ordinal preference rankings, where the voter can express intensity or degree of preference. The consensus of a set of m rankings is...

Peer review of research proposals and articles is an essential element in research and development processes worldwide. Here we consider a problem that, to the best of our knowledge, has not been addressed until now: how to assign subsets of proposals to reviewers in scenarios where the...

One of the best known and most widely referenced models for representing ordinal preferences is that due to Kemeny and Snell (Kemeny, J. G., L. J. Snell. 1962. Preference ranking: an axiomatic approach. Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences. Glnn, New York, 9--23.). This model is designed...

This paper investigates the problem of obtaining a compromise/consensus from a set of ordinal rankings of n objects supplied by m committee members. Earlier work by Cook and Seiford (Cook, Wade D., Lawrence M. Seiford. 1978. Priority ranking and consensus formation. Management Sci. 24 (16)...

In a recent paper, Golany (1988) proposes an interesting extension of Data Envelopment Analysis to the situation where ordinal relations among weights corresponding to certain dimensions exist. However, the development of the extended model contains mathematical errors and the proposed...

This paper examines the problem of rank ordering a set of players or objects on the basis of a set of pairwise comparisons arising from a tournament. The criterion for deriving this ranking is to have as few cases as possible where player i is ranked above j while i was actually defeated by j in...

In conventional ordinal ranking models the voter/ranker supplies an ordered set of preferences on a collection of objects without specifying any form of intensity of preference. For example, an executive committee of ten members is required to assign five candidates to five positions. The nature...

This paper investigates the Borda-Kendall method for the determination of a consensus ranking. It is shown that in the case of ties the method does not perform as claimed. A "minimum variance" method for determining the consensus ranking is proposed and its properties examined. It is shown to be...

This paper presents an improved measurement tool for evaluating performance of branches within a major Canadian bank. While there have been numerous previous studies of performance in the banking industry, particularly at the branch level, this study is different in a very significant way:...