Project ranking using partial ranks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ju, Jiali; Zhang, Pei; Anderson, Timothy
- Source
- 2015 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2015 Portland International Conference on. :472-477 Aug, 2015
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Engineering Profession
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Transportation
Algorithm design and analysis
Nominations and elections
Focusing
Bibliographies
Companies
Indexes
Robustness
- Language
- ISSN
- 2159-5100
A competition was recently held for new elder care technologies and a method was needed for selecting an audience favorite project. Since each of the eight projects received a half hour presentation time slot spread out over a full day, attendance varied significantly with morning projects having a much lower attendance. An algorithm was desired that was robust with respect to varying evaluator. A new algorithm for aggregating ranks from a large number of incomplete judgment was developed and applied to the projects to select a winner. This paper presents the new algorithm, tests the new approach against others in the application, and discusses relative tradeoffs.