Abstract
A collective decision making system uses an aggregation mechanism to combine the input of individuals to generate a decision. The decisions generated serve a variety of purposes from governance rulings to forecasts for planning. The Internet hosts a suite of collective decision making systems, some that were inconceivable before the web. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of collective decision making systems into which we place seven principal web-based tools. This taxonomy serves to elucidate the state of the art in web-based collective decision making as well as to highlight opportunities for innovation.
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Watkins, J.H., Rodriguez, M.A. (2008). A Survey of Web-Based Collective Decision Making Systems. In: Nayak, R., Ichalkaranje, N., Jain, L.C. (eds) Evolution of the Web in Artificial Intelligence Environments. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79140-9_11
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