Minimising the Rank Aggregation Error

M. M. de Weerdt, E. H. Gerding, S. Stein

Election type Ordinal
Culture Mallows
Candidates {6}
Voters {5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 45, 50}
Instances 1
The number of samples per datapoint is not clearly stated (possibly 1?).
Parameters $\phi = 0.6666$
The Mallows model is modified to have probability q that a vote is missing a candidate. In the experiments q=0.7
Motivation websites that produce rankings of restau-rants, books and movies based on crowdsourced contribu-tions from their users, and scientific communities that usevotes from their members to select which project proposalsto fund or which papers to accept