Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of `experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration.This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of ‘experts’ in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration. This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration. This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of `experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration.This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of `experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration.This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … consideration. This paper introduces a new method, called the handicap-based method, and characterizes it through appealing …

Ranking by rating consists in evaluating the performances of items using exoge- nous rating functions and ranking these … the performances of the remaining items. When performances belong to a finite set, ranking by rating is characterized by …