Reference Model for World Wide Web Voting and Rating Services
Miklós Bíró, László Kovács, András Micsik, Tibor Remzśó · SZTAKI Publication Repository (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 1997
One of the purposes of the Web4Groups Telematics Applications Project of 4. Framework is to provide, develop, and demonstrate new standardized group communication services for European citizens. Voting and rating services are an important part of the tasks of Web4Groups. In this paper the generalization of the voting and rating architecture is provided in the form of a Reference Model. A Reference Model is an abstract computational model without any particular implementation issues. The main purpose of creating this Reference Model is the promotion of the basic understanding of the problem of voting and rating. The Reference Model is a specialized version of the Reference Model of Distributed Group Decision Support Systems (RM-DGDSS) developed previously. The RM-DGDSS defines a distributed architecture environment for supporting a group of decision makers connected via computer network. Entities of the Voting and Rating Reference Model and their relationship are presented as well.