A Multi-Criteria Decision Method Based on Rank Distance
Title:
A Multi-Criteria Decision Method Based on Rank Distance
Author:
Dinu, Liviu P. Popescu, Marius
Appeared in:
Fundamenta informaticae
Paging:
Volume 86 (2008) nr. 1-2 pages 79-91
Year:
2008-11-03
Contents:
The multi-criteria decision making process can be summarized as follows. Given a pattern d and a set C = {c_1, c_2, …, c_m} of allmpossible categories of d, we are interested in predicting its class by using a set of n classifiers l_1, l_2, …, l_n. Each classifier produces a ranking of categories. In this paper we propose and test a decision method which combines the rankings by using a particular method, called rank distance categorization. This method is actually based on the rank distance, a metric which was successfully used in computational linguistics and bioinformatics. We define the method, present some of its mathematical and computational properties and we test it on the digit dataset consisting of handwritten numerals ('0', …, '9') extracted from a collection of Dutch utility maps. We compare our experimental results with other reported experiments which used the same dataset but different combining methods.
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