Implementing the “Design for Emergence” Principle in GDSS

  • Authors:

  • Constantin-Bala Zamfirescu;Luminita Duta;Ciprian Cândea

  • Affiliations:

  • “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Engineering, Depart. of Computer Science and Automatic Control;University “Valahia” of Targoviste, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Systems Science, Automation and Informatics;Ropardo SRL, “Research and Development” Department

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the general context of Group Decision Support System (GDSS), the paper investigates the possibility to externalize and support, from a metacognitive perspective, the effective use of facilitation knowledge with self-development capabilities. The experimental results make evident that these capabilities may be easily engineered by adopting the basic principles of the design for emergence in constructing an e-meeting facilitation tool that act as a stigmergic collaborative environment for the participants. Basically, the GDSS needs to provide a minimal structure for modeling the group decision process (GDP) which enables a participant-driven approach to group facilitation and magnify the sense of social participation. In this way the GDSS may provide a collaborative environment where unpredictable and more effective models of GDP design will emerge through the exploration of the problem space.