12:00 - 13:00
We-SPOT03
Chair:
Martin Karlberg (Eurostat, Luxembourg)
A Flexible Voting Approach for Supporting more Accurate Decisions
Miroslav Hudec, (Email) 1, 5, Sara D’Onofrio, (Email) 2, Edy Portmann, (Email) 3, Vanessa Torres van Grinsven, (Email) 4
1 University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia
2 Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen, Switzerland
3 University of Fribourg, Switzerland
4 Universität zu Köln, Germany
5 VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Traditional voting systems with binary values (yes/no) are a broadly used way for reaching decisions. However, it is not possible to collect and analyse the intensities of voters’ inclinations to extreme poles (or their indecisiveness). This work proposes flexible voting with a continuous scale. We covered formalizations for recognizing the winner option, and for revealing valuable patterns and presenting them by short quantified sentences of natural language. The importance of such a framework increases, because today’s developments indicate that there is no longer an "either/or" in decisions. In addition, this approach can be applied in binary questions of surveys.