Suppose you ran a chess tournament, everybody played everybody, and you wanted to use the results to rank everybody. Unless you were really lucky, the results would not be acyclic...
A recurring theme in AI and multiagent systems is how to select the "most desirable" elements given a binary dominance relation on a set of alternatives. Schwartz's...
Felix Brandt, Felix A. Fischer, Paul Harrenstein, ...
We present the first polynomial-time algorithm for computing the minimal covering set of a (weak) tournament. The algorithm draws upon a linear programming formulation of a subset...