Computer-made process of manipulating symbols so that conclusions are drawn from premises.
Published in Chapter:
Information Distribution Decisions Supported by Argumentation
Ramon Brena (Centro de Sistemas Inteligentes – Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico) and Carlos Chesñevar (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch056
Abstract
Information and knowledge (IK) are each day more valuable assets in modern organizations (Atkinson, Court, & Ward, 1998; Carrillo, 1998; Liebowitz & Beckman, 1998). Distributing IK is indeed one of the main processes in knowledge management (Liebowitz & Wilcox, 1997; Horibe, 1999). Now, deciding which piece of IK goes to which member of an organization is a decision problem not simple in real organizations. There are many aspects that should be considered, such as what are the responsibilities and tasks of each person, which access rights they have, what are their preferences, and so on. Taking into account all these aspects requires either a huge amount of human labor or the help of an information-technology tool. In this article we explore how a particular technology, automated argumentation, which is a kind of automatic reasoning, can be applied to solve decision problems related to information distribution in an organization.