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Dynamic Profiles for Voting Advice Applications

An Implementation for the 2017 Ecuador National Elections

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Authors:
  1. Luis Terán

    1. Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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  • IIntroduces voting advice applications, including the state-of-the art and their design
  • Presents a conceptual framework for the design of dynamic profiles for voting advice applications
  • Provides a comprehensive case study based on the 2017 national elections in Ecuador

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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Motivation and Objectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 3-11

  3. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Voting Advice Applications

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 15-26

    3. A Literature Review for Recommender Systems Techniques Used in Microblogs

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 27-47

  4. Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Dynamic Profiles Using Sentiment Analysis for VAAs

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 51-70

    3. A Dynamic VAA for the 2017 Ecuador National Election

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 71-94

  5. Implementation and Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Architecture and Implementation

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 97-116

    3. Analysis and Evaluation

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 117-130

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Discussion and Conclusions

      • Luis Terán
      Pages 133-143

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 145-167
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About this book

Electronic participation is an emerging and growing research area that makes use of internet solutions to enhance citizens' participation in government processes in order to provide a fair and efficient society. This book examines recommender-system technologies and voting advice applications as tools to enable electronic citizen participation during election campaigns. Further, making use of fuzzy classification, it provides an evaluation framework for eParticipation. A dynamic voting advice application developed for the 2017 Ecuador national election serves as a real-world case study to introduce readers to the practical implementation and evaluation issues. The book concludes with a comprehensive analysis of the 2017 election project based on altmetrics, Google Analytics and statistics from the case study.  

Reviews

“This is a well-written book that provides lot of necessary insights to readers. The methods and techniques used to implement VAAs will continue to evolve and improve. In this context, I encourage the author to think about the next edition of this book.” (Varadraj Gurupur, Computing Reviews, August 21, 2020)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Luis Terán

About the author

Luis Terán (1979) received the BSc degree in electronics and telecommunications from Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), Quito, Ecuador, in 2004, the MSc degree in communication systems from the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2009, and the PhD and habilitation degrees in computer science from the University of Fribourg. He is currently working as a senior researcher in cognitive computing at the Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and as an academic guest in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. He also has been appointed full professor at Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), Ecuador. His research interests include eGovernment, eParticipation, eCollaboration, eDemocracy, eElection, eVoting, eCommunities, 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), an editorial board member at the Cooperative Perspective Journal, a guest editor at the Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Journal, and a distinguished exhibitor at IEEE Ecuador Section. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamic Profiles for Voting Advice Applications

  • Book Subtitle: An Implementation for the 2017 Ecuador National Elections

  • Authors: Luis Terán

  • Series Title: Fuzzy Management Methods

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24090-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24089-9Published: 24 August 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24092-9Published: 25 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24090-5Published: 09 August 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2196-4130

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-4149

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 167

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: IT in Business, Electoral Politics, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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