This book covers diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence, giving a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities and informed technological developments -- Provided by publisher.

Technology currently encourages the capture and storage of vast quantities of data and information and so thinkers, reasoners, and decision-makers have available large resources to support their tasks. At the same time, there is a need to engage with an enormous range of complex issues that require reasoning and decisions that are actionable to address them. Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning: Knowledge Technology Support acts to provide knowledge for each individual in a group with the broad structural wealth of reasoning. It also acts as an explicit structure...