Laureti, Paolo; Mathiesen, Joachim; Zhang, Yi-Cheng - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 338 (2004) 3, pp. 596-604
We analyze different methods of sorting and selecting a set of objects by their intrinsic value, via pairwise comparisons whose outcome is uncertain. After discussing the limits of repeated Round Robins, two new methods are presented: The ran-fil requires no previous knowledge on the set under...