Approaches for community decision making and collective reasoning : knowledge technology support /

• Main Author: Yearwood, John, 1954-
• Other Authors: Stranieri, Andrew.
• Format: Book
• Published: Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2012.
• Subjects: Communities.; Group decision making.; Reasoning.; Information technology > Social aspects.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"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.

Table of Contents:

• The elements of collective decision making
• Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning
• Individual reasoning within a reasoning community
• The generic/actual argument model
• Communicating reasoning and dialectics
• Coalescent reasoning
• Narrative reasoning
• Ontologies and the semantic web
• Pragmatic approaches to supporting reasoning communities
• Tools and applications for reasoning communities
• Technological support for reasoning communities.