Contribution based priority assessment in a web-based intelligent argumentation network for collaborative software development

Decision making is an important aspect in a collaborative software development process which involves a complex process of conflict resolution. The priority of the participants plays a vital role in conflict resolution as the decision making process involves many participants from multiple perspectives. The priority assessment methods used in the process so far are usually static in nature, i.e., the priorities of the participants remain constant throughout the decision making process. In order to make the collaborative system more close to real world scenarios, we incorporate dynamic priority assessment into a web-based collaborative system based on intelligent computational argumentation, which was developed in our previous research work. We evaluate priorities dynamically for each cycle of the decision process based on the contribution of each participant. The contribution is assessed based on impact of each participant´s arguments on the winning design alternative. More successful participants have higher priorities in argumentations during collaboration.