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Dynamic Profiles for Voting Advice Applications

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In this chapter, the reader is presented with a description of the main contributions, outlook, and conclusions of this work.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://smartvote.ch.

  2. 2.

    http://www.preferencematcher.org.

  3. 3.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-files.

  4. 4.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election.

  5. 5.

    Participa Inteligente Team: https://participacioninteligente.org/quienes-somos.

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

    Luis Terán

  2. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

    Luis Terán

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Terán, L. (2020). Discussion and Conclusions. In: Dynamic Profiles for Voting Advice Applications. Fuzzy Management Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24090-5_8

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