The Borda Count, the Intersection and the Highest Rank Method in a Dispersed Decision-Making System

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to compare the results obtained using three different methods of conflict analysis in a dispersed decision-making system. The conflict analysis methods, used in the article, are discussed in the paper of Ho, Hull and Srihari [6] and in the book of Black [2]. All these methods are used if the individual classifiers generate rankings of classes instead of unique class choices. The first method is the Borda count method, which is a generalization of the majority vote. The second is the intersection method, which belong to the class set reduction method. The third one is the highest rank method, which belong to the methods for class set reordering. All of these methods were used in a dispersed decision-making system which was proposed in the paper [12].