Web-Based Collaboration and Decision Making Support: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

نویسندگان

  • Nikos I. Karacapilidis
  • Manolis Tzagarakis
چکیده

Arguing that a varying level of formality needs to be offered in systems supporting argumentative collaboration, this article proposes an incremental formalization approach that has been adopted in the development of CoPe_it!, a Web-based tool that complies with collaborative principles and practices, and provides members of communities engaged in argumentative discussions and decision making processes with the appropriate means to collaborate towards the solution of diverse issues. According to the proposed approach, incremental formalization can be achieved through the consideration of alternative projections of a collaborative workspace. IntroductIon Designing software systems that can adequately address users’ needs to express, share, interpret, and reason about knowledge during a session of argumentative collaboration has been a major research and development activity for more than 20 years (de Moor & Aakhus, 2006). Designing, building, and experimenting with specialized argumentation and decision rationale support systems have resulted to a series of argument visualization approaches. Technologies supporting argumentative collaboration usually provide the means for discussion structuring, sharing of documents, and user administration. They support argumentative collaboration at various levels and have been tested through diverse user groups and contexts. Furthermore, they aim at

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IJWLTT

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007