Multi-participant Decision-making Based on Digital Platforms: A Case Study for the Romanian Academy

The last decade culminating with the pandemic disrupted traditional business models in various industries and accelerated the digital transformation based on economy platforms. The main aim of this paper is to present the platform economy framework to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions for different business models and the basic aspects related to multi-participant/collaborative decision-making and evaluation of teleconference platforms and particularize the virtual meetings and conferences. The necessary steps for planning a teleconference and the results of the concept implementation have been extracted from Romanian Academy practical case study referring to multi-participant decision-making using teleconference platforms. A Seasonal Autoregressive Moving Average model (SARIMA) is employed to explain the number of participants in an online conference in the Romanian Academy between April 2020 to August 2023. This model has been used to make short-run dynamic and static forecasts on the horizon from September 2023 to December 2023.