July 2006
Beginner
599 pages
23h 12m
English
IBIS was developed to serve as an argumentative procedure for decision making groups to use in coordination and support of debate over decisions that are politically influenced and those that sometimes occur in planning and design. The IBIS can be used as a procedure for arguing, designing, planning, and policymaking decisions on any topic. The IBIS procedure rests on the assumption that these activities are political in nature and serves to develop a discourse over an initially unstructured topic or problem area. The procedure structures, monitors, records debates and develops a database as the debate proceeds. The core components of IBIS are issues, ...