Approaches for community decision making and collective reasoning
Subtitle: knowledge technology support
By: by John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri
Contributors: Stranieri, Andrew
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hershey, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781466618183; 9781466618190; 9781466618206
Subjects: Communities; Social aspects; Group decision making; Information technology; Reasoning
Description: "This book focuses on how groups can structure their activities toward making better decisions or in developing technologies for the support of decision-making in groups"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The elements of collective decision making; title: Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning; title: Individual reasoning within a reasoning community; title: The generic/actual argument model; title: Communicating reasoning and dialectics; title: Coalescent reasoning; title: Narrative reasoning; title: Ontologies and the semantic web; title: Pragmatic approaches to supporting reasoning communities; title: Tools and applications for reasoning communities; title: Technological support for reasoning communities.