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From: reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
Keywords: Delphi, E-Mail, Decission Support,  Groupware
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Date: 3 Jan 90 15:00:33 GMT
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In article <6267@inco.UUCP> newman@inco.UUCP (Bo Newman) writes:

>I have been giving thought to a Delphi Server for a E-Mail system and 
>would be VERY INTERESTED in discussing same with others.  

   Delphi has been utilized with computerized conferencing systems.

>For those not familiar with the Delphi method, it is a method of reaching
>a quantitative evaluation of subjective opinions be the use or reiterative
>rankings by a set of subject experts. (Or so I remember)

   More or less.....

>For a more complete discussion of the Dephi method, the RAND Corp did a 
>write up on it quite a few years ago (I believe the method may have been
>developed by the RAND Corp.).

   I don't know who is responsible for developing the Delphi method, but
a book has been written on the subject:

              H. Linstone, and M. Turoff,
              The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications,
              Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1975.


   According to the following reference, the first computerized conferencing
system that was built in 1970 implemented a Delphi communication structure.


              Murray Turoff, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz
              Computer Support for Group Versus Individual Decisions,
              IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-30(1),
              January 1982, pp. 82-91.



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