Policy as Argument---A Logic for Ill-Structured Decision Problems
This paper presents a new framework for handling ill-structured decision problems. The framework derives from recent developments in the logic of argumentation. It shows how policy statements may under certain conditions be construed as the outcome of a complex process of argumentation. The framework is especially suited to ill-structured decision problems since it is capable of handling explicit contradictions and missing parts in an argument structure. It is also shown by means of a new concept---plausibility---how it is possible to locate the weakest links in a complex argument. A major consequence of the concept of plausibility is that it is possible under certain conditions to transform a problem in the logic of argumentation (i.e., symbolic logic) into one of algebra (i.e., linear programming).
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1982
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Authors: | Mitroff, Ian I. ; Mason, Richard O. ; Barabba, Vincent P. |
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Management Science. - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS, ISSN 0025-1909. - Vol. 28.1982, 12, p. 1391-1404
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS |
Subject: | planning: philosophy of modeling |
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