Computational Support for Public Debate and Policy Justification

fonte:http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Ekatie/egov06.pdf
acesso:23-10-2009

Abstract. This paper investigates how computer support can be enlisted to help
the Government collect and analyse public opinions regarding the justification of
policies. To do this we show how a link can be established between two existing
systems for eDemocracy: the first, an implemented online tool based upon a specific
model of argument for gathering the public?s views about a particular topic;
the second, a method to enable autonomous software agents to reason about justifications
for action based upon their subscription to social values.We show how
the output from the first of these systems can be used as input to the second and
how the information gathered can be reasoned about through computer support.