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Visualising Rationale In The Cpm, David H. Mott, Michael C. Dorneich
Visualising Rationale In The Cpm, David H. Mott, Michael C. Dorneich
Michael C. Dorneich
Rationale is being explored by the ITA in planning, for shared understanding of plans, and for capturing dependencies between assumptions/decisions and parts of the plan. Informal rationale captured during evaluation of the Collaborative Planning Model has been explored in terms of alternative visual representations and questions that these raise.
Improving Shared Understanding In Multilevel Planning, Michael C. Dorneich, David Mott, Ali Bahrami, Jitu Patel
Improving Shared Understanding In Multilevel Planning, Michael C. Dorneich, David Mott, Ali Bahrami, Jitu Patel
Michael C. Dorneich
Planning is a specific example of a problem solving activity that is undertaken across multiple (human) collaborative agents. In order to collaborate, these humans need to form a shared understanding of various aspects of the plan, mutual goals, the contexts of the other agents, and the rationale for others decisions and assumptions. Failure to reach this shared understanding can have serious implications to the success of the resulting plan. Currently plans are developed and shared with peer and subordinate units in a static format such as text, diagrams and spreadsheets which do not normally contain any of the reasoning, logic …