Polynomial Weights or Generalized Geometric Weights: Yet Another Scheme for Assigning Credits to Multiple Authors

TL;DR

This paper introduces a polynomial weight assignment scheme for fairly distributing credit among multiple authors, comparing its effectiveness with existing methods to improve attribution fairness.

Contribution

It proposes a novel polynomial weight scheme for author credit assignment and provides a comparative analysis with existing schemes.

Findings

The polynomial scheme offers a new approach to author credit distribution.

Comparative analysis shows differences in fairness and applicability.

The scheme's advantages over traditional methods are discussed.

Abstract

Devising a weight assignment policy for assigning credits to multiple authors of a manuscript is a challenging task. In this paper, we present a scheme for assigning credits to multiple authors that we call a polynomial weight assignment scheme. We compare our scheme with other schemes proposed in the literature.