Implementation and application of consensus support systems based on facilitator supporting agents

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Ito Takayuki 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (50333555)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 合意形成 / エージェント / 議論支援 / 大規模議論 / 集合知 / 集団意思決定 / マルチエージェント / 意見集約

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are a lot of needs to have a large-scale online discussion support methodologies and systems. Thus, in this research, we pursue to realize a large-scale online discussion support systems which utilize some intelligent information processing technologies (like agents). As results, we succeeded building facilitator support mechanisms that include incentive mechanisms that can incentives participants to post something and be active in discussion, and also we implemented a discussion tree diagram that can support participants to grasp the whole picture of discussion flows and branches. After some experiments, we demonstrated that these mechanisms successfully support facilitators to lead better discussions.

Free Research Field

知能情報処理