In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but
neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive …

The problem of modeling expert knowledge about numerical parameters in the field of
reliability is reconsidered in the framework of possibility theory. Usually expert opinions …

There are various aggregation procedures for obtaining a group priority vector within
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) supported decision making processes. This paper will …

In normative political theory, it is widely accepted that democratic decision-making cannot be
reduced to voting alone, but that it requires reasoned and well-informed discussion by those …

Epistemic logic is the branch of philosophical thought that seeks to formalize the discourse
about knowledge. Its object is to articulate and clarify the general principles of reasoning …

Social epistemology is the interdisciplinary inquiry into the myriad ways humans socially
acquire, create, construct, transmit, store, represent, revise, and review knowledge …

The processes of information diffusion across social networks (for example, the spread of
opinions and the formation of beliefs) are attracting substantial interest in disciplines ranging …

In epistemology and the philosophy of science, there has been an increasing interest in the
social aspects of belief acquisition. In particular, there has been a focus on the division of …

This paper studies the behavioral foundations of non-Bayesian models of learning over
social networks and develops a taxonomy of conditions for information aggregation in a …

This chapter deals with an important issue pertaining to intelligent information processing
systems, that of managing information coming from several sources. Possibility theory and …