SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING OF ENTERPRISE USING CROWDSOURCING IN COMBINATION WITH WEIGHTED EVALUATOR RATINGS

摘要

Enterprise evaluation based on crowdsourcing concepts. An approach to enterprise evaluation is described that uses crowd-sourced data and an iterative approach. Individual enterprise evaluators are themselves evaluated and assigned weighting factors based on their acumen and accuracy with regard to enterprise evaluation. Enterprise evaluations are provided by each enterprise evaluator, who collectively form a crowdsourcing crowd, and weighted according to each evaluator's assigned weighting factor. The crowd-sourced weighted-averages from all evaluators are combined and used periodically and iteratively to evaluate the individual crowdsourcing participants and to re-calculate their individual weighting factors. The approach provides more accurate and more directed enterprise evaluations as compared to simple arithmetic averaging of crowd-sourced data, and is improved over time with each iteration.