A New Consensus Tool in Digital Libraries

Libraries represent a focal point of academic life and as such serve also a societal purpose of bringing together people around common themes. This purpose is nowadays enhanced and facilitated by the so-called digital libraries. For this reason, it is necessary to develop tools for helping users to reach decision with a high level of conensus in these virtual environments. The aim of this contribution is to present a tool for reaching consensus in order to minimize the main problems that these virtual environments presents (difficulty of establishing trust relations, low and intermittent participation rates, and so on) while incorporating the the benefits that they offers (rich and diverse knowledge due to a large number of users, real-time comunication, and so on). To do so, the fuzzy linguistic modelling is used to represent the users’ opinions.

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