Title of article
The selection efficiency of tournaments
Author/Authors
Dmitry Ryvkin، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Pages
9
From page
667
To page
675
Abstract
We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives (“players”) in a noisy environment. We characterize the selection efficiency of three such mechanisms – contests, binary elimination tournaments, and round-robin tournaments – depending on the shape of the distribution of players’ quality, the number of players, and noise level. The results have implications as to how, and under what circumstances, the efficiency of tournament-based selection can be manipulated.
Keywords
human resources , Applied probability , Selection , simulation , Tournament
Journal title
European Journal of Operational Research
Serial Year
2010
Journal title
European Journal of Operational Research
Record number
1312856
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