Design and Development of a Distributed Cooperative Evaluation System Implemented with Vote Based Evaluation Method

Abstract

Researchers have recently reported various issues and factors on ICT education. However, a framework that consists of the issues and factors has not been clarified. The existing methods for clarifying the framework of issues with idea generation and decision support have two major problems. The first one is requiring long discussions for resulting idea generation. The second one is the waiting time until finishing of idea generation. For solving these problems, we proposed Vote Based Evaluation (VBE) method that integrates idea generation and decision support. VBE method picks out issues and factors from persons, organizes them with directed graphs, selects approved factors with votes and thresholds, and finally arranges the issues in order according to the degrees of concerns. Moreover, we implemented VBE method in our Distributed Cooperative Evaluation System (DiCES) for improving effects of VBE methods and for spreading the method among persons through the Internet. This paper describes the rationale of VBE and DiCES, and presents some experimental results.