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A Novel Method for University Ranking: Bounded Skyline

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New Trends in Database and Information Systems (ADBIS 2022)

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Abstract

University rankings are not only used as tools in academia and funding agencies, but they are popular readings in newspapers and magazines as well, plus they are of major importance for decision-making in academia. University rankings have been heavily criticized for a number of reasons, including that they are based on arbitrary choices about the key performance indicators, their special weights and so on. For these reasons, we argue that there is no meaning in ranking universities in an absolute ordered manner; instead universities should be ranked in “sets of equivalence”. To this end, here we present a modified version of Skyline and Rainbow Ranking, named Bounded Skyline and Bounded Rainbow Ranking, respectively. The results are analyzed and discussed in comparison to traditional university rankings.

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    https://www.timeshighereducation.com/.

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    https://www.topuniversities.com/.

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  1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Georgios Stoupas

  2. International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Antonis Sidiropoulos

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  1. Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Silvia Chiusano

  2. Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Tania Cerquitelli

  3. Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Robert Wrembel

  4. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Kjetil Nørvåg

  5. University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Barbara Catania

  6. CNRS, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Genoveva Vargas-Solar

  7. University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Ester Zumpano

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Stoupas, G., Sidiropoulos, A. (2022). A Novel Method for University Ranking: Bounded Skyline. In: Chiusano, S., et al. New Trends in Database and Information Systems. ADBIS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15743-1_27

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