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Managing Argumentative Discourses in Multi-Actor Environments

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This chapter investigates whether and how argumentative collaboration for policy and decision-making can be effectively supported by an appropriately developed information system. The research method adopted for this purpose follows the ’Design Science Paradigm’, which has been extensively used in information systems research. We used this paradigm to develop a Web-based system for supporting: (a) the collaboration required for public policy and decision-making; as well as (b) the creation, leveraging and utilisation of relevant knowledge. The proposed system allows for distributed (synchronous or asynchronous) collaboration and aims at aiding the involved parties by providing them with a series of argumentation, decision-making and knowledge management features. The remainder of this chapter is structured as follows: the first section comments on literature related to the issue of argumentative collaboration; the second section presents the features and functionalities of the proposed system; the third section describes its application in a real public policy problem. Finally, the last section discusses set of critical issues related to the proposed solution and draws conclusions.

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Karacapilidis, N. (2010). Managing Argumentative Discourses in Multi-Actor Environments. In: Cerreta, M., Concilio, G., Monno, V. (eds) Making Strategies in Spatial Planning. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3106-8_13

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