In the last decade, the problem of getting a consensus group ranking from all users' ranking data has received increased attention due to its widespread applications. Previous research solved this problem by consolidating the opinions of all users, thereby obtaining an ordering list of all items...

Resource constraints are commonly found in classification tasks. For example, there could be a budget limit on implementation and a deadline for finishing the classification task. Applying the top-down approach for tree induction in this situation may have significant drawbacks. In particular,...