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A Conceptual Group Decision Support System for Current Times: Dispersed Group Decision-Making

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Abstract

We are living a change of paradigm regarding decision-making. On the one hand, there is a growing need to make decisions in group at both professional and personal levels, on the other hand, it is increasingly difficult for decision-makers to meet at the same place and at the same time. The Web-based Group Decision Support Systems intend to overcome this limitation, allowing decision-makers to contribute to the decision process anytime and anywhere. However, they have been defined inadequately which has been compromising its success. In this work, we propose a conceptual definition of a Web-based Group Decision Support System that intends to overcome the existing limitations and help them to affirm as a reliable and useful tool. In addition, we address some crucial topics, such as communication and perception, that are essential and sometimes forgotten in the support of dispersed decision-makers. We concluded that there are still some limitations, mostly in terms of models and applications, that prevent the design of higher quality systems.

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This work was supported by the GrouPlanner Project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-29178) and by National Funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within the Projects UID/CEC/00319/2019 and UID/EEA/00760/2019.

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  1. GECAD – Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal

    João Carneiro, Patrícia Alves & Goreti Marreiros

  2. ALGORITMI Centre, University of Minho, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, ETS de Ingenierias Informática y de Telecomunicación, Granada, Spain

    Francisco Herrera

  2. Department of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka , Japan

    Kenji Matsui

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Carneiro, J., Alves, P., Marreiros, G., Novais, P. (2020). A Conceptual Group Decision Support System for Current Times: Dispersed Group Decision-Making. In: Herrera, F., Matsui , K., Rodríguez-González, S. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference. DCAI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1003 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23887-2_18

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