Title
An Iterative Procedure for Evaluating Digraph Competitions
Abstract
A competition which is based on the results of (partial) pairwise comparisons can be modelled by means of a directed graph. Given initial weights on the nodes in such digraph competitions, we view the measurement of the importance (i.e., the cardinal ranking) of the nodes as an allocation problem where we redistribute the initial weights on the basis of insights from cooperative game theory. After describing the resulting procedure of redistributing the initial weights, an iterative process is described that repeats this procedure: at each step the allocation obtained in the previous step determines the new input weights. Existence and uniqueness of the limit is established for arbitrary digraphs. Applications to the evaluation of, e.g., sport competitions and paired comparison experiments are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1023/A:1016339832755
Annals OR
Keywords
Field
DocType
cooperative games,digraph competitions,limit measure,relational power measure,Shapley value,stochastic processes
Pairwise comparison,Uniqueness,Mathematical optimization,Iterative and incremental development,Ranking,Shapley value,Iterative method,Stochastic process,Digraph,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
109
1-4
1572-9338
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.79
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Borm148271.53
René Van Den Brink218727.06
Marco Slikker319146.31