A Proposal of Toolkit for GDSS Facilitators

A. Adla (), P. Zarate () and J.-L. Soubie ()
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A. Adla: IRIT, Toulouse University
P. Zarate: IRIT, Toulouse University
J.-L. Soubie: IRIT, Toulouse University

Group Decision and Negotiation, 2011, vol. 20, issue 1, No 5, 57-77

Abstract: Abstract Most group decision meetings are perceived to be extremely unproductive in terms of efficiently utilizing the participants’ time and effectively achieving the group decision meeting objectives. Indeed, group decision meetings consume a great deal of time and effort in organizations. These problems occur frequently because effective guidelines or procedures are not used. To overcome these problems, many group decision support systems (GDSS) imbed some facilitation mechanisms and are currently being used with the help of a human facilitator who guides the group members through the decision process. We propose in this paper a toolkit for GDSS facilitators that we integrate in our proposed architecture for distributed GDSS. Based on a model of the decision making processes group facilitation tasks are automated, at least partially in order to increase the ability of inexperienced facilitator to monitor and control the group decision meeting process.

Keywords: GDSS; Distributed facilitation; Distributed decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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