Decisio-Epistheme: An Integrated Environment to Geographic Decision-Making

  • Authors:
  • Manuel de Castro;Jonice Oliveira;Julia Celia M. Strauch;Jano M. de Souza

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKM '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Collaborative decision-making in geographic-driven management projects often face problems as: difficulties of manage spatial data as a component of the process, lack of coordination of the different areas involved in the process, difficulties of knowledge access, badly defined decision processes, and absence of an appropriate tool that manages spatial data in a collaborative approach. Decisio-Epistheme is an integrated web-based environment that uses workflow, knowledge management and decision support tools to ease collaborative decision processes that deal with spatial data. In our approach, the collaborative decision process is treated as a form of knowledge creation because its definition and related activities are complementary to the process of externalization, internalization, combination and socialization of knowledge. The system is being applied in an agro-meteorological project, with the purpose of improving the results at the Brazilian agro-business.