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SmartParticipation

A Fuzzy-Based Recommender System for Political Community-Building

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo

    1. Information Systems Research Group, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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  • Provides an introduction of the fuzzy-based recommender system architecture
  • Includes a chapter that presents the "Smart Participation" project, a maturity model for e Participation
  • Provides a special chapter that presents an e Participation evaluation framework
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Fuzzy Management Methods (FMM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Motivation and Objectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 3-9

  3. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. eGovernment

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 13-20

    3. Recommender Systems

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 21-32

    4. Fuzzy Logic

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 33-43

  4. Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Fuzzy Recommender System

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 47-81

    3. SmartParticipation

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 83-91

  5. Evaluation Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Evaluation Framework

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 95-110

  6. Implementation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Architecture and Implementation

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 113-124

  7. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Discussion and Conclusions

      • Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo
      Pages 127-133

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 135-161
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About this book

In this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed. It showcases the "Smart Participation" project, which uses the database of "smart vote", a well-known voting advice application (VAA) for local, cantonal and national elections in Switzerland. Additionally, an evaluation framework for e Participation is presented, which allows to analyze different projects and their development towards the enhancement of citizen's participation and empowerment. The book demonstrates the potential for building political communities and the stimulation of civic participation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Information Systems Research Group, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Luis Fernando Terán Tamayo

About the author

Luis Terán is currently working as assistant doctor at the Information Systems Research Group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Fribourg (Information Systems Research Group). In 2009, he finished a M.Sc. in Communication Systems from the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2004, he received a B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications from Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. His research interests include eGovernment, eParticipation, eCollaboration, eDemocracy, eElection, eVoting, eCommunities, ePassports, recommender systems and fuzzy classification. He is currently a board member for the IEEE e-Government Special Technical Community, the program chair and main organizer for the International Conference on eDemocracy and eGovernment (ICEDEG) and an instructor in the International Seminar on eDemocracy and eGovernment (ISEDEG).

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