Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis

Y Fu, Z Yi - China Economic Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index of China (PKU-DFIIC)
measures the digital financial inclusion (DFI) performance in China from three dimensions …

A benchmark of categorical encoders for binary classification

F Matteucci, V Arzamasov… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Categorical encoders transform categorical features into numerical representations that are
indispensable for a wide range of machine learning models. Existing encoder benchmark …

Inter-country comparisons of energy system performance with the energy trilemma index: An ensemble ranking methodology based on the half-quadratic theory

Y Fu, Y Lu, C Yu, KK Lai - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Energy Council annually publishes the Energy Trilemma Index (ETI) to
highlight an economy's challenges in balancing the Trilemma and opportunities for …

[HTML][HTML] A general approach for computing a consensus in group decision making that integrates multiple ethical principles

F Salas-Molina, F Bistaffa… - Socio-Economic Planning …, 2023 - Elsevier
We tackle the problem of computing a consensus according to multiple ethical principles–
which can include, for example, the principle of maximum freedom associated with the …

A new correlation coefficient for comparing and aggregating non-strict and incomplete rankings

Y Yoo, AR Escobedo, JK Skolfield - European Journal of Operational …, 2020 - Elsevier
We introduce a correlation coefficient that is designed to deal with a variety of ranking
formats including those containing non-strict (ie, with-ties) and incomplete (ie, unknown) …

An axiomatic distance methodology for aggregating multimodal evaluations

AR Escobedo, E Moreno-Centeno, R Yasmin - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
This work introduces a multimodal data aggregation methodology featuring optimization
models and algorithms for jointly aggregating heterogeneous ordinal and cardinal …

Enhancing collective estimates by aggregating cardinal and ordinal inputs

R Kemmer, Y Yoo, A Escobedo… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
There are many factors that affect the quality of data received from crowdsourcing, including
cognitive biases, varying levels of expertise, and varying subjective scales. This work …

Elicitation and aggregation of multimodal estimates improve wisdom of crowd effects on ordering tasks

Y Yoo, AR Escobedo, R Kemmer, E Chiou - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
We present a wisdom of crowds study where participants are asked to order a small set of
images based on the number of dots they contain and then to guess the respective number …

Decision field theory-combined multi-attribute group decision-making method for incomplete linear ordinal ranking

N Liu, Z Xu, H Wu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
In practice, experts sometimes compare alternatives from different perspectives by rankings
to express their preferences. However, it is common that the comparing information they give …

Method of interval fusion with preference aggregation in brightness thresholds selection for automatic weld surface defects recognition

SV Muravyov, DC Nguyen - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Checking the weld joint quality is carried out during visual inspection process and depends
significantly on an operator's experience. In the article, an approach is proposed to …