Arguments That Support Decisions in E-Cognocracy: A Quantitative Approach Based on Priorities Intensity

Arguments That Support Decisions in e-Cognocracy: A Qualitative Approach Based on Text Mining Techniques

“…It extends and complements a previous paper of the GDMZ [7] presented in the First World Summit on Knowledge Society (WSKS08). In that case, following a quantitative approach based on the preference intensities of the political parties and citizens, we identify the messages and comments that support the different positions or patterns of behaviour of the actors involved in the resolution of the problem.…”

“…E-cognocracy [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] is a new democratic model that, based on the evolution of living systems, focuses on the extraction and social diffusion of the knowledge derived from the scientific resolution of highly complex problems associated with public decision making related with the governance of society.…”

“…This cognitive democracy seeks to convince citizens by means of arguments and not to defeat them (e-democracy) by means of votes [6,7]. To this end, e-cognocracy identifies the arguments that support the decisions made by the political parties and the citizens from the messages both group includes in the collaborative tool used to implement the discussion phase of its methodology.…”

“…The stages followed in the e-cognocracy process [7,9] are: Stage 1: Problem Establishment. Using the web, this stage identifies the relevant aspects of the problem: context, actors and factors (mission, criteria, subcriteria, attributes and alternatives), as well as their interdependencies and relationships.…”

“…Finally, integrating this qualitative approach with the quantitative one proposed in [7] and the individual changes in preferences, we will be able to identify the social leaders (the actors whose opinions provoke these changes) and the arguments taken into account by the citizens.…”