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Report Outline

• Introduction
  • Introduce vodle
  • Introduce Liquid Democracy
  • Motivation
  • Audience
  • Project Goal (implement LD into vodle)
  • Project Outline (Outline of Report) (may be unnecessary)
• Research
  • Issues with Liquid Democracy
    • Cycles
    • Abstentions
    • Super Voters
  • Existing Variations of Liquid Democracy
    • Ranked Delegation
    • Weighted Delegation
      • Other versions -> don't go into too much detail as it will not be chosen
      • Introduce the one created by Jobst
        • Prove it converges etc.
    • Existing Real World Implementations of Liquid Democracy
      • Which variations they have implemented/ how it works etc.
  • vodle
    • Research into how the vodle website works (architecture)
      • How does the current (unfinished) delegation system work and what issues does that propose for implementation
    • Research into vodle's Design Philosophy (Need to Maintain a Consistent User Interface)
    • Agent based modelling
• System Specifications
  • Project Objectives
  • Project Requirements
    • Break down objectives into measurable functional and non functional requirements.
• Design and Implementation
  • Section for each objective - technical challenges and implementation details
• Evaluation
  • Unit Testing (For LD Algorithms)
  • User Testing
  • Feedback from Customer (Jobst)
• Project Management
  • Methodology - could separate into its own chapter
    • Talk about specific approach - agile => feedback from customer, iterative, deliver working features at the end of every cycle
    • Plan - Gantt chart
    • Risk Assessment
      • display in table and explain each risk in detail afterwards.
  • Legal and Ethical
  • Risk Management Reflection
  • Overall Reflection (from my POV) as mentioned on cs310 webpage
• Conclusion
  • Future Work