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Six experts in corporate real-estate disposition contributed their knowledge during five meetings supported by a group support system (GSS). The experts who contributed their knowledge, other experts in disposition, real-estate managers with some disposition experience, and novices evaluated the final version of the resulting expert system prototype, DISPOSITION ADVISOR. One-way ANOVAs revealed that...
The gathering of requirements for the development of executive support systems and computerized patient records has proven to be a time-consuming and challenging process. This paper presents an example of practice involving the end users and their support team, in a technology-assisted process of requirements determination. The participants utilized an electronic meeting system with a process designed...
Group support systems (GSS) have an important role to play in the creativity revolution occurring in organizations. Creativity has been studied in terms of: the characteristics of the creative individual; specific creativity processes used; the nature of the products of creative processes: and the attributes of environments that inhibit or are conducive to creativity. GSS research, however, has tended...
As the importance of group work gains recognition, entrepreneurs and corporations are evaluating the feasibility of offering technology-assisted meeting and planning applications to the general business community. This paper presents one corporation's decisions, experiences and lessons learned in building a business offering around group support technology. The primary focus is on describing the process...
A field experiment explored whether "anonymous" comments entered through a group support system could be identified by members of standing groups. Four groups of co-workers reported on the identification of other group members' specific comment submissions during anonymous brainstorming sessions. A social network of each group was built from a measure of group-member prior communication...
Groups that are both temporally and geographically distributed have serious coordination problems. The purpose of this experiment was to assess the effectiveness of a set of group decision support system tools called "List" and "Vote", and of alternative interaction management procedures, as mechanisms for coordinating distributed groups using a computer conferencing system. The...
Distance education technologies provide the environment for the integration of distributed group support systems (GSS) into existing classroom curricula. Integration of information technology beyond specific courses in the academic discipline is a requirement if transfer of learning to the world of work is to become a reality. The resistance to pedagogical changes through the utilization of technology...
Competitive market forces and lower coordination costs are pushing large hierarchical organizations towards new organizational structures made of small, heterogeneous, project-oriented teams. These new organizations, however, lack the specialized knowledge created by functional units while working on several projects in the same area. Current collaborative technologies can help maintain communication...
Substantial changes are occurring in systems development. In response, attempts are being made to empower system developers through technology. The predominant response being CASE. Even if CASE were an accepted enabling technology, it is not a sufficient technology. CASE focuses on the technical aspects of system development work. System developers need complementary technology to help with the social...
Often, complex decisions must be made by a group of specialists rather than a single decision maker. To make an effective decision, the combination of the group's expertise must be brought to bear on the situation. Fusing expertise where individuals have very detailed knowledge in their own areas and much weaker understanding of others is characterized by difficulties: agents cannot communicate their...
We consider a situation in which multiple decision-makers who are partitioned into two or more distinct groups are asked to recommend a uniform course of action which is drawn from a finite and explicit set of potential alternatives. We present group-level and player-level mechanisms to reach a compromise decision under such circumstances. The group-level mechanism is based on the Dempster-Shafer...
The creativity or mediating process, including a creativity or mediating deadlock to success, is shown on three levels: a non-decomposed association level, a decomposed association level, and a leaped association level. An illustration of each level is developed both of the creation of the product and the success of negotiation or group decision-making. In relation to conceiving ideas and group decision-making,...
In this paper, a group decision and negotiation support system is proposed for multicriteria problems with a discrete set of decision alternatives. The group decision and negotiation process is bared on the concepts of fuzzy set theory and hierarchical decision analysis. Individual linguistic assessments of criteria and the decision alternatives versus the selection criteria are aggregated to obtain...
Computer simulation models have been proposed as aids for policy negotiations in complex domains. We studied the use of such a model by college students in mock policy negotiations in reservoir management. Comparisons between groups given differing forms of access to the model suggest that: (I) the model is of limited value in helping negotiators understand the task per se; (2) the model does provide...
Some authors have claimed that much research concerning the success of group support systems (GSS) has been inconclusive. This study examines the multitude of measures of GSS success which have been employed in this research and organises them into categories previously used to study information systems (IS) success, namely systems and information quality, use, user satisfaction, and individual and...
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