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Scholarship award method
Matthew W. Hickey,James H. Wolfston,Raymond L. Price +2 more
- 31 Oct 2001
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a voting criterion to motivate large numbers of supports of the students to visit the web site of a scholarship award web site and vote for a student for a scholarship.
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Abstract: Anyone having Internet access can contact a scholarship award web site and nominate a student for a scholarship. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of a voting criterion, such as the number of votes cast at the web site, thereby motivating large numbers of supports of nominees to visit the web site.
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