Conference facilitator election method, apparatus and program

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify an appropriate chairperson who can finish a conference on time. PSOLUTION: The method for selecting the chairperson of a conference includes: a process to extract the user IDs of participants associated to the conference IDs of a conference in which a person participating in a specific conference who has participated in the past from a conference data storage part; a process to remove duplicates of the user IDs of the extracted participants and store as the user IDs of co-participants in a co-participant list storage part; a process to calculate the score indicating the degree of suitability to the chairperson of the specific conference by specifying the conference IDs associated to the user IDs of the person participating and the user IDs of the corresponding co-participants for every person participating from the conference data storage part, specifying the actual times and scheduled times of the conferences related to the specified corresponding conference IDs from the conference data storage part, calculating first values using the ratios of the actual times and the scheduled times, and determining the total of the first times; and a process to specify as the chairperson of the conference based on the calculated score. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT