Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations two alternative sequences of nested dominance criteria between Lorenz curves are introduced. At ...

In today’s competitive business situation, performance evaluation of firms is an extremely important concern of all the people who are typically stakeholders of the business game. In case of holding companies, this is a more important issue since the parent firm must permanently control the situation of its subsidiaries in their sectors to make appropriate investment decisions. This paper...

The paper considers a technique for ordering objects that are described with many quantitative and/or qualitative attributes and may exist in several copies. Such multi-attribute objects may be represented as multisets or sets with repeating elements. Object ordering is based on the theory of multiset metric spaces and applied to ranking enterprises, which are estimated differently by several d...

Our work deals with calendar information as it is expressed in natural language (NL), that is to say through textual units such as prepositional phrases or noun phrases (e.g. in the 90s, at the beginning of the XVth century). We call these textual units Calendar Expressions (CE). Our work aims at showing how Information Retrieval systems can benefit from dealing with CE. In this paper we descri...

Pair-wise comparisons assume additivity, transitivity and equal weighting of properties’ traits. This paper explores multi-criteria treatments of pair wise comparisons in order to reveal the implicit hierarchical decision making process used by analysts who perform residential valuations. This treatment is presented as an extension of traditional grid treatments used extensively by professsiona...

15. Supplementary Notes Supported by general revenues from the State of Texas 16. Abstract In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in applying statistical ranking criteria to identify sites on a road network, which potentially present high traffic crash risks or are overrepresented in certain type of crashes, for further engineering evaluation and safety improvement. This requires th...