Autonomous agents that respond intelligently in dynamic, complex environments need to be both reactive and deliberative. Reactive systems have traditionally fared better than deliberative planers in such environments, but are often hard to code and innexible. To ll in some of these gaps, we propose a hybrid system that exploits the strengths of both reactive and deliberative systems. We demonst...

Several problems need to be addressed when integrating reactive and deliberative layers in a hybrid architecture, most importantly the different time scales of operation and (possibly) different data representations of the individual layers. This paper proposes an interface component called GLUE that is designed to mediate between a schema-based reactive and higher-level deliberative layer. We ...

The paper outlines Deliberative Community Networks as the evolution of Community Networks, as they have been the ‘90es of the 20th century. Deliberative Community Networks aim at overcoming the limits ‘traditional’ Community Networks have shown in involving citizens in the decision making process by local institutions and at supporting the government bodies actually committed to involve citizen...

IMPACTSince the 1980s, deliberative democracy has dominated thinking around democratic innovation as an approach to address ongoing legitimacy crisis of public insitutions. One methods implementing democracy, citizen assemblies (CAs), are increasingly being applied mainstream decision-making. The scale in UK been notable—representing a seminal juncture adoption CA method engagement. This articl...

Deliberative and participatory approaches to democracy seek directly include citizens in decision-making agenda-setting processes. These methods date back the very foundations of Athens, where regular shared burden governance deliberated every major issue. However, thinkers at time rightly believed that these could not function beyond scale city-state, or polis. Representative as an innovation ...

Social cognition in humans is distinguished by psychological processes that allow us to make inferences about what is going on inside other people-their intentions, feelings, and thoughts. Some of these processes likely account for aspects of human social behavior that are unique, such as our culture and civilization. Most schemes divide social information processing into those processes that a...

BACKGROUND High uptake of vaccinations is crucial for disease prevention. Although overall uptake of childhood immunisations is high in the United Kingdom (UK), pockets of lower uptake remain. Novel systematic methods have not been employed when reviewing the qualitative literature examining parents' vaccination decisions. AIMS We aimed to conduct a qualitative systematic review of studies in...

Do formal deliberative events influence larger patterns of political discussion and public opinion? Critics argue that only a tiny number of people can participate in any given gathering and that deliberation may not remedy—and may in fact exacerbate—inequalities. We assess these criticisms with an experimental design merging a formal deliberative session with data on participants’ social netwo...

Since at least the mid-1980s, some scholars of United States administrative law have touted deliberative democracy as a promising theory to justify the modern administrative state. Those who advocate deliberative administration, however, have not easily incorporated the role of democratic politics into their models of that state. This Article begins by reviewing the historical development of th...