Title
Aggregation of Partial Rankings, p-Ratings and Top-m Lists
Abstract
We study the problem of aggregating partial rankings. This problem is motivated by applications such as meta- searching and information retrieval, search engine spam fighting, e-commerce, learning from experts, analysis of population preference sampling, committee decision making and more. We improve recent constant factor approximation algorithms for aggregation of full rankings and generalize them to partial rankings. Our algorithms improved constant factor approximation with respect to all metrics discussed in Fagin et al's recent important work on comparing partial rankings. We pay special attention to two important types of partial rankings: the well-known top-m lists and the more general p-ratings which we define. We provide first evidence for hardness of aggregating them for constant m, p.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s00453-008-9211-1
Algorithmica
Keywords
DocType
Volume
important type,full ranking,information retrieval,constant factor approximation,search engine spam fighting,recent constant factor approximation,population preference sampling,partial ranking,top-m lists,committee decision,partial rankings,general p-ratings,search engine,e commerce,approximation algorithms
Journal
57
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
0178-4617
978-0-89871-624-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
2.64
14
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nir Ailon1111470.74