The aim of this paper is to show a method that is able to detect inconsistencies in the reasoning carried out by a deliberative agent. The agent is supposed to be provided with a hybrid Knowledge Base expressed in a language called CCR-2, based on production rules and hierarchies of frames, which permits the representation of non-monotonic reasoning, uncertain reasoning and arithmetic constrain...

What is the explanatory potential of deliberation in a political context of collective decisionmaking? This paper posits actors‟ ability to comply with the force of the better argument through explication of the relevant deliberative warrants and through mechanisms for the activation of institutional status functions. It establishes a conceptual scheme for analysing successful processes of deli...

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexical, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate soci...

Risk management provides a context for addressing environmental health hazards. Critical to this approach is the identification of key opportunities for participation. We applied a framework based on the National Research Council's (NRC) analytic-deliberative risk management dialogue model that illustrates two main iterative processes: informing and framing. The informing process involves conve...

Deliberative democracy by the people themselves is a distinctive form of democratic practice. It can be distinguished from deliberative democracy practiced by elites or representatives as well as from other forms of democracy that do not emphasize deliberation. In this article I explore ways this kind of democracy can be realized and then inserted into our current democratic institutions. The i...

9 This paper presents a multi-agent architecture that facilitates the development of real-time multi-agent systems based on the SIMBA 10 approach. The approach allows the integration of unbounded deliberative processes with critical real-time tasks. CBP-BDI deliberative 11 agents collaborate with ARTIS agents in order to solve real-time problems efficiently. The proposal has been successfully t...

Three University research centres, CSERGE in East Anglia, ESRC in London, and the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) in Lancaster have combined to convene a series of seminars over three years on the issues and practices underlying deliberative and inclusionary processes in environmental decision making. This working paper contains a summary of presentations given at the first ...

Although the personality trait of urgency has been linked to problem gambling, less is known about psychological mechanisms that mediate the relationship between urgency and problem gambling. One individual variable of potential relevance to impulsivity and addictive disorders is age. The aims of this study were to examine: (i) a theoretical model associating urgency and gambling problems, (ii)...