Sahab, Sofia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5822-5021
Haqbeen, Jawad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0481-0196
Hadfi, Rafik
Ito, Takayuki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5093-3886
Imade, Richard Eke http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-3091
Ohnuma, Susumu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8617-8667
Hasegawa, Takuya
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | JST | Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JPMJCR20D1)
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K17948)
Article History
Received: 30 March 2023
Accepted: 6 March 2024
First Online: 21 March 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare the following competing interests: T.I. served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the development of the online discussion platform utilized in this research, part of the “Innovating Agent-based Large-scale Consensus Support System” project. This project, supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the CREST program (Grant No. JPMJCR15EI), received funding from October 2015 to March 2021. The intellectual property (IP) rights of the online platform are jointly owned by Nagoya Institute of Technology and Kyoto University, both national research universities in Japan, and all associated activities within the university are focused on nonprofit research and development. T.I. is also one of the inventors for certain aspects of the technology, for which a United States patent application has been filed (application no: PCT/JP2019/031183, Publication no: US 2021/0319187 A1). All other authors have no competing interests to declare.