Knockout tournaments are very common in practice for various settings such as sport events and sequential pairwise elimination elections. In this paper, we investigate the computational aspect of tournament agenda control, i.e., finding the agenda that maximizes the chances of a target player winning the tournament. We consider several modelings of the problem based on different constraints tha...

It is well known that every tournament has a directed path containing all the vertices of V , i.e. a hamiltonian path. It is an easy exercise to show that a tournament has a unique such path if and only if the arcs of A induce a transitive relation on V . In this paper we show that by reversing the arcs of the hamiltonian path in a transitive tournament with n vertices we obtain a tournament wi...

A criterion for the approximability of all solutions heat equation in a bounded cylindrical domain that belong to Lebesgue class by more regular (e.g., Sobolev) same with larger base is obtained. Namely, complement smaller one must have no (nonempty connected) compact components. As an important corollary, we prove theorem on existence doubly orthogonal basis corresponding pair Hilbert spaces.

We analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer’s perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, we demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best player, here termed the “predictive power” of a tournament, depends on the tournament format, the distribution of players’ types, and the overall noise level. We formalize the organizer’s decision problem for varying...

Our work investigates the problem of retrieving the maximum item from a set in crowdsourcing environments. We focus on tournament algorithms that can for instance select the best Facebook profile that matches a given person or the best photo that describes a given restaurant. Tournament algorithms can be tuned with parameters such as the desired difference of votes between the top-2 voted outco...

This paper reports the characteristics of and mutual relationships between various combinatorial structures that give rise to certain imprimitive nonsymmetric three-class association schemes. Nontrivial relation graphs of an imprimitive symmetric 2-class association scheme are m ◦ Kr, (the union of m copies of the complete graph on r vertices) and its complement m ◦Kr, (the complete m-partite s...

Many problems in multiagent decision making can be addressed using tournament solutions, i.e., functions that associate with each complete and asymmetric relation on a set of alternatives a non-empty subset of the alternatives. For a given tournament solution S, Schwartz calls a set of alternatives S-retentive if it satisfies a natural stability criterion with respect to S. He then recursively ...

In this study a new class of tournament designs is introduced. In particular, each game of the tournament involves several (two or more) teams competing against one another. The tournament is also required to satisfy certain balance conditions that are imposed on each pair of players. These balance conditions are related to both the total number of players on each team and the number of teams i...

A tournament can be viewed as a majority preference relation without ties on a set of alternatives. In this way, voting rules based on majority comparisons are equivalent to methods of choosing from a tournament. We consider the size of several of these tournament solutions in tournaments with a large but finite number of alternatives. Our main result is that with probability approaching one, t...

Let H be a tournament, and let ≥ 0 be a real number. We call an “Erdős-Hajnal coefficient” for H if there exists c > 0 such that in every tournament G with |V (G)| > 1 not containing H as a subtournament, there is a transitive subset of cardinality at least c|V (G)| . The Erdős-Hajnal conjecture asserts, in one form, that every tournament H has a positive Erdős-Hajnal coefficient. This remains ...