Published In

Proceedings of PICMET '15: Management of the Technology Age

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2015

Subjects

Technological innovations -- Management, Technological Change, Decision making, Technology -- Management

Abstract

A competition was recently held for new elder care technologies and a method was needed for selecting an audience favorite project. Since each of the eight projects received a half hour presentation time slot spread out over a full day, attendance varied significantly with morning projects having a much lower attendance. An algorithm was desired that was robust with respect to varying evaluator. A new algorithm for aggregating ranks from a large number of incomplete judgment was developed and applied to the projects to select a winner. This paper presents the new algorithm, tests the new approach against others in the application, and discusses relative tradeoffs.

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This is the publisher's final pdf. Copyright © 2015 by PICMET. Paper delivered at Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2015.

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2015.7273155

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16682

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