Collective decision making is classically done via social choice theory with each individual expressing preferences as a (total) order over a given set of alternatives, and the group’s aggregated preference is computed using a voting rule. However, such methods do not take into account the rationale behind preferences. Our research hypothesis is that a decision made by participants understanding the qualitative rationale (i.e., arguments) behind each other’s preferences has better chances to be accepted and used in practice. To this end, we propose a novel qualitative decision process which combines argumentation with computational social choice. We show that a qualitative approach based on argumentation can overcome some of the social choice deficiencies.
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Bisquert, P., Croitoru, M., & Karanikolas, N. (2017). A Qualitative Decision-Making Approach Overlapping Argumentation and Social Choice. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10576 LNAI, pp. 344–349). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67504-6_25
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