Information fusion for norm consensus in virtual communities

Abstract

Legislation in virtual communities should not be a private privilege, as well as the application of norms. In this project a new way of deliberating about norms is formalized, with the norm argument map, people will be able to argue and decide the norms that rule their virtual community. Also, we will see a method to fuse all the data introduced by participants into a single score or opinion about a given norm, from this the decision of wether to establish the norm or not will be taken. All of these decisions have to be taken in the most human way possible, to evaluate the results of the method, a Java project has been coded and by comparing it with other methods we will reason why this project’s method is better.