Approaches for community decision making and collective reasoning : knowledge technology support / by John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.