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given in a 1-5 scale, where 1 stands for ‘I strongly
disagree’ and 5 for ‘I strongly agree’.
With respect to the overall quality of the Dicode
Workbench, the evaluators agreed (median: 4, mode:
4) that its objectives are met, that it is novel to their
knowledge, that are satisfied with its performance
and that they are overall satisfied with it. The
evaluators were neutral (median: 3, mode: 3) with
respect to whether the Workbench addressed the
data intensive decision making issues. As long as its
acceptability is concerned, the evaluators agreed
(median: 4, mode: 4) that the Workbench has the full
set of functions they expected, that its interface is
pleasant and that they will recommend it to their
peers/community.
6 CONCLUSIONS
Taking into account the feedback received from the
first evaluation phase of the Dicode project, we
argue that our overall approach offers an innovative
solution that reduces the data-intensiveness and
overall complexity of real-life collaboration and
decision making settings to a manageable level, thus
permitting stakeholders to be more productive and
concentrate on creative activities. Towards this
direction, the project provides a suite of innovative,
adaptive and interoperable services that satisfies the
requirements reported in Section 2.
A major future work direction concerns the
improvement of Dicode services in terms of their
documentation, user interfaces and performance.
Another one concerns testing of these services in
various data-intensive contexts towards further
assessing their applicability and potential.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This publication has been produced in the context of
the EU Collaborative Project “DICODE - Mastering
Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making”,
which is co-funded by the European Commission
under the contract FP7-ICT-257184. This
publication reflects only the authors’ views and the
Community is not liable for any use that may be
made of the information contained therein.
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