Book description
Decision-making has evolved recently thanks to the introduction of
information and communication technologies in many organizations,
which has led to new kinds of decision-making processes, called
“collaborative decision-making”, at the organizational and cognitive
levels.
This book looks at the development of the decision-making
process in organizations. Decision-aiding and its paradigm of problem
solving are defined, showing how decision-makers now need to work in a
cooperative way. Definitions of cooperation and associated concepts
such as collaboration and coordination are given and a framework of
cooperative decision support systems is presented, including
intelligent DSS, cooperative knowledge-based systems, workflow, group
support systems, collaborative engineering, integrating with a
collaborative decision-making model in part or being part of global
projects.
Several models and experimental studies are also
included showing that these new processes have to be supported by new
types of tools, several of which are described in order to calculate
or simulate solutions or global solutions for decision-making
modification. Definitions and new trends for these models are given,
along with types of systems.
