Amalgamating the Rankings of Judges with Various Degrees of Expertise.

摘要

There have been many methods proposed for amalgamating the individual opinions of a group of experts into a group opinion. Most of these do not recognize the fact that in this day of specialization the judges may have varying degrees of expertise or knowledge of the entities being considered. A person may be an expert in a given field, but his expertise may vary considerably from topic to topic within that field. This paper proposes a method for weighting the opinion expressed on each entity being considered, according to the degree of knowledge or expertise possessed by the judge. This is accomplished by a modification of Arrow's Rule of Majority Procedure for amalgamating group opinions. (Author)