Online deliberation enables structured, topical discussion about particular questions or concepts. A number of Web-based deliberation systems have been independently introduced in recent years, and reported on as single-point examples. This article reviews several of these systems, focusing on the design principles behind them and how they worked out. From this literature, we distill another it...

Abstrac t . Soccer meets the requirements of the Situated Agent approach and as a task domain is sufficiently rich to support research integrating many branches of AI. Reactive deliberation is a robot architecture that combines responsiveness to the environment with intelligent decision making. Under Reactive Deliberation, the robot controller is partitioned into a deliberator and an executor; ...

Applications that operate in highly dynamic environments must deal with real-time changes of circumstances in order to be consistent and coherent. In this work, we propose an extended deliberation cycle for BDI-modelled agents that takes advantage of environmental events to coordinate the deliberation process. Our argument is that is it possible to optimise the deliberation performance by explo...

This study found internet-enabled public deliberation having a direct impact on top-level decisions and it identified institutional mechanisms by which this occurs. Most government initiatives aimed at promoting online deliberation all short of expectations. The participatory governance model developed in this study presents design and process parameters along which more interactive and engagin...

Deliberation plays an important role in the design of rational agents embedded in the real-world. In particular, deliberation leads to the formation of intentions, i.e., plans of action that the agent is committed to achieving. In this paper, we present a branching-time possible-worlds model for representing and reasoning about, beliefs, goals, intentions, time, actions, probabilities, and payo...

The influence of decision task and deliberation style on the verdict of the juries. In the Kameda's Deliberation Style Model the emission of verdicts of responsibility when the deliberation style of the juries (elemental/compound) and the type of decision task (disjunctive/conjunctive) are jointly manipulated, is favoured in certain conditions. Given the consequences that these approaches could...

Performance profile trees have recently been proposed as a theoretical basis for fully normative deliberation control. In this paper we conduct the first experimental study of their feasibility and accuracy in making stopping decisions for anytime algorithms on optimization problems. Using data and algorithms from two different real-world domains, we compare performance profile trees to other w...