A case for the re-use of community reasoning
- Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision making: Cooperative approaches p.
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- Description: In software engineering, the re-use concept is a design principle that improves efficency, quality and maintainability by ensuring that software artifacts are developed once and re-used may times. In an analogous way, a group's reasoning can be imagined to be re-used by that or another group to enhance efficiency, transparency and consistency in decison-making. However, the re-use of reasoning is difficult to achieve because group reasoning cannot easily be captured and the way in which a group reasoning artifact is subsequently used is not obvious. This chapter explores the case for the re-use of community reasoning and concludes that individuals can benefit from a representation of a previous groups's coalesced reasoning to be modeled and the scheme to represent the reasoning have been selected to suit the task. The authors contend that specifying the future community like to re-use the reasoning, called the intended audience, informs a decision regarding whether an exercise aimed at coalescing a group's reasoning is best performed verbally, in writing or with the use of more structured schemes such as Argument visualization.
A reasoning community perspective on deliberate democracy
- Authors: Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision making: Cooperative approaches p.237-246
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- Description: This chapter describes some of the current approaches to delibertative democracy and the considers them from the perspective of a reasoning community framework. This approach highlights important tasks, process and structures that can be used to enhance the process of groups engaging in deliberative democracy approaches. In particular it focuses attention on the potential for technologies to support groups in achieving broad agreed structured reasoning bases that capture the scope of an issue from multiple perspectives.
Web technologies and reasoning communities
- Authors: Miller, Charlynn , Smith, Philip
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision-making p. 397-411
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- Description: The popularity of the Internet, coupled with a reduction in traditional community participation has resulted in maturation in the way that people use Web 2.0 technologies to support communities. Reasoning communities come together to make decisions or form courses of action on particular topics. This chapter investigates how traditional Web (1.0), Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies can be used to support the four phases of the process that reasoning communities typically undergo to achieve their results.
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