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Mixed-integer programming model for ranking universities: Letting universities choose the weights

KŮDELA, J.

Originální název

Mixed-integer programming model for ranking universities: Letting universities choose the weights

Typ

článek v časopise ve Scopus, Jsc

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Regardless of the shortcomings and criticisms of world university rankings, these metrics are still widely used by students and parents to select universities and by universities to attract talented students and researchers, as well as funding. This paper proposes a new mixed-integer programming model for ranking universities. The new approach alleviates one of the criticisms – the issue of the “arbitrari-ness” of the weights used for aggregation of the individual criteria (or indicators) utilized in the contemporary rankings. Instead, the proposed model uses intervals of different sizes for the weights and lets the universities themselves “choose” the weights to optimize their position in the rankings. A numerical evaluation of the proposed ranking, based on the indicator values and weights from the Times Higher Education World University Ranking, is presented.

Klíčová slova

Mixed integer programming; Multiple-criteria decision-making; Ranking; University ranking

Autoři

KŮDELA, J.

Vydáno

21. 6. 2021

ISSN

1803-3814

Periodikum

Mendel Journal series

Ročník

27

Číslo

1

Stát

Česká republika

Strany od

41

Strany do

48

Strany počet

8

URL

https://mendel-journal.org/index.php/mendel/article/view/133

BibTex

@article{BUT172124,
  author="Jakub {Kůdela}",
  title="Mixed-integer programming model for ranking universities: Letting universities choose the weights",
  journal="Mendel Journal series",
  year="2021",
  volume="27",
  number="1",
  pages="41--48",
  doi="10.13164/mendel.2021.1.041",
  issn="1803-3814",
  url="https://mendel-journal.org/index.php/mendel/article/view/133"
}