Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision making : cooperative approaches / [edited by] John Yearwood, Andrew Stranieri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yearwood, John, 1954-

Stranieri, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group decision making.

Group problem solving.

Reasoning.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Telematics.

Physical Description:

xxii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2011]

Summary:

"This book covers diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence, giving a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities and informed technological developments"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An argumentation model of deliberative decision-making / Douglas Walton

Intersubjective reasoning and the formation of metaconsensus / Simon Niemeyer

Communication and group performance: comparing CMC with FTF decision-making groups in Taiwan / Shu-Chu Sarrina Li, Lin-Mei Huang, Yi-Ching Liu

Information sharing and processing in computer-mediated interactions / Jamonn Campell

Communities of practice in knowledge management and organisational learning / Celina M. Olszak and Ewa Ziemba

A reasoning community perspective on deliberative democracy / John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri

Group decision making: how to obtain representative group judgments from individual judgments / Thomas Saaty

Distributed collaborations and the effect of sociometric feedback / Taemie Kim and Alex (Sandy) Pentland

Methods of group decisions and aggregation of experts' opinions / Jir̆í Vaníc̆̆̆ek, Ivan Vrana, Shady Aly

Cognitive tools for group decision making: the repertory grid approach revisited / Marco Castellani

Group decision making for advanced manufacturing technology selection using the Choquet integral / Cengiz Kahraman, Selçuk Çebi, İhsan Kaya

Indexing as an ontological support for legal reasoning / Erich Schweighofer

A case for the re-use of community reasoning / Andrew Stranieri and John Yearwood

Collaborative transportation sharing: from theory to practice via a case study from France / Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu and Joëlle Morana

Spatial ontologies in multi-agent environmental planning / Dino Borri and Domenico Camarda

Chewing the communal cud: community deliberation in broadsheet letters and political blogs / Jane Mummery and Debbie Rodan

Decision support in interest based negotiation support systems: the AssetDivider system / Emilia Bellucci and John Zeleznikow

A multiagents system for coordinating naval forces / Larbi Esmahi and Elarbi Badidi

Negotiating meaning in a blog-based community: addressing unique, shared, and community problems / Vanessa P. Dennen

Establishing reasoning communities of security experts for Internet commerce security / Andrei V. Kelarev ... [et al.]

Web technologies and reasoning communities / Charlynn Miller and Philip Smith.

Notes:

"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609600914

1609600916

9781609600938

1609600932

OCLC:

606788611