Abstract
DEMOS provides an environment that assists the management of discussions and decision making through the web, especially when involving a large population (e.g., a community using the web to debate about city issues). It is based on the integration of three well-proven methods of social research: the Delphi method, Survey techniques, and Mediation method. These are supported by a set of tools (user interfacing, forum management, survey organization, text mining, and clustering), integrated in a layered architecture and adapted to multiple languages (the current version works on English, German and Italian web sites).
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Florian, M. et al.: The Future of Security and Risks in Telecommunication — Expectations of Experts (TeleDelphi). In: Multilateral Security in Communications. Vol. 3. München; Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley-Longman (1999) 465–480.
Rossi, P.H. et al., eds.: Handbook of Survey Research, Orlando (1983)
Susskind, L. and Cruikshank, J.: Breaking the Impasse. Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes. New York: The Perseus Books Group (1989)
Gordon, T. et al.: Zeno: Groupware for Discourses on the Internet. Künstliche Intelligenz, 15 (2001)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Luehrs, R., Pavón, J., Schneider, M. (2003). DEMOS Tools for Online Discussion and Decision Making. In: Lovelle, J.M.C., Rodríguez, B.M.G., Gayo, J.E.L., del Puerto Paule Ruiz, M., Aguilar, L.J. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45068-8_98
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45068-8_98
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-40522-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45068-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive