A DECISION RECONSTRUCTION SUPPORT MODEL

Francisco Antunes () and João Costa
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Francisco Antunes: Management and Economics Department, Beira Interior University and INESCC, R. Antero de Quental, 199, 3000-033 Coimbra, Portugal

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2013, vol. 12, issue 02, 309-333

Abstract: The importance of understanding the reasons for past decisions is not a new subject. However, there seems to be a gap when it comes to verifying the efficiency of tools for understanding past decisions. In this paper, we show that the ability to perform decision reconstruction using a Group Support System (GSS) can provide a flexible solution to the problem, but only if the information model underlying it is able to provide bidirectional support to the phases of a decision-making process. For this, we present a general information model to support the decision-making process, as well as the decision reconstruction process. We tested these ideas by setting up a case study where we used a GSS, based on our model, to analyze a simulated public contracting process. We present a discussion of the results.

Keywords: Decision reconstruction; GSS; information model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219622013500132

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