Online debate tools for participatory democracy and crowdsourcing legislation are limited by different factors. One of them arises when discussion of proposals reaches a large number of contributions and therefore citizens encounter difficulties in mapping the arguments that constitute the dialectical debate. To address this issue, we present a visualization tool that shows the discussion of an...

Abstract The political philosophy of radical democracy has made innumerable invaluable contributions to theories democracy. However, while democrats tend focus on the political, a cogent and comprehensive framework law appropriate only recently been begun be developed. Interpreting vast tradition based at least fundamental tenets equality, anti-foundationalism, lesser extent conflict, this pape...

Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) can be used to support strategic planning for business improvement. This involves the development of system models to identify the activities that an organisation must perform to meet its goals. Jacobson’s Use-case modelling in the Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a requirements engineering technique that similarly leads to the identification of sys...

One of the expectations generated by Peace Agreement signed in November 2016 between Colombian Government and FARC-EP guerrillas was to create conditions democratic openness that would allow for political participation opposition. As a working hypothesis it is considered regime has not provided enough guarantees exercise democracy current government allowed political, social, armed conflict be ...

Dialog man tigement addresses two specific problems: (1) providing a coherent overall structure to interaction that extends beyond the single turn, (2) correctly managing mixedinitiative interaction. We propose a dialog management architecture based on the following elements: handlers that manage interaction focussed on tightly coupled sets of information, a product that reflects mutually agree...