- Title
- Group structured reasoning for coalescing group decisions
- Creator
- Yearwood, John; Stranieri, Andrew
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60039
- Identifier
- vital:1960
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-009-9162-1
- Identifier
- ISSN:0926-2644
- Abstract
- In this paper we present the notion of structured reasoning through a model, called the Generic/Actual Argument Model (GAAM). The model which has been used as a computational representation for machine modelling of reasoning and for hybrid combinations of human and machine reasoning can be used as a coalescent framework for decision making. Whilst the notion of structuring reasoning is not new, structured reasoning is advanced as a technique where group consensus on reasoning structures at various levels can be used to facilitate the comprehension of complex reasoning particularly where there are multiple perspectives. For an issue, the approach provides a scaffolding structure for cognitive co-operation and a normative reasoning structure against which group participants can identify points of difference and points in common as well as the nature of the differences and similarities. Intra-group transparency characterized by the ability to recognise points in common and understand the nature of differences is important to the process of coalescing group decisions that carry maximum group support. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Relation
- Group Decision and Negotiation Vol. , no. (2009), p. 1-29
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Argumentation; Decision support; Generic arguments; Practical reasoning; Structured reasoning
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