UNFADING DECISIONS - A Position Paper on Decision Reconstruction

Francisco Antunes, João Paulo Costa

2010

Abstract

The importance of understanding and recording past decisions increases when we realize that employees’ memories are not always available, neither will they last permanently in organizations. In this paper we posit that the ability to perform decision reconstruction using a Group Support System (GSS) can provide a flexible solution to the problem, but only if the information model underlying it is able to provide bidirectional support to the phases of a decision-making process. For this, we present general characteristics for an information model to support decision-making as well as decision reconstruction processes.

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Antunes F. and Costa J. (2010). UNFADING DECISIONS - A Position Paper on Decision Reconstruction . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 374-377. DOI: 10.5220/0003080503740377


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@conference{keod10,
author={Francisco Antunes and João Paulo Costa},
title={UNFADING DECISIONS - A Position Paper on Decision Reconstruction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={374-377},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003080503740377},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - UNFADING DECISIONS - A Position Paper on Decision Reconstruction
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Antunes F.
AU - Costa J.
PY - 2010
SP - 374
EP - 377
DO - 10.5220/0003080503740377