On rank reversals in the Borda count

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 795-803

  Scott, Michael J ^a   Zivkovic, Irena ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Borda count; Decision support; Monte Carlo; Pairwise comparison chart (PCC); Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; THEOREM PROVING;

BORDA COUNT; DECISION SUPPORT; MONTE CARLO; PAIRWISE COMPARISON CHART (PCC); UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842809918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dtm-48674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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