The proposed contribution presents the results of an on going research work aiming at the implementation of a knowledge based system devoted to supporting the local government and the citizenship during the setting up process of a Regional Natural Park in Southern Italy. The system architecture integrates Group Decision Support Technology already available on the enterprise software market with...

The decision-making process is marked by two kinds of elements: organizational and technical. The organizational elements are those related to companies’ day-to-day functioning, where decisions must be made and aligned with the companies’ strategy. The technical elements include the toolset used to aid the decision making process such as information systems, data repositories, formal modeling, ...

Decision making support systems (DMSSs) are specialized computer-based information systems that have emerged in the last 30 years to support all phases of the decision making process, from intelligence through the design, choice, implementation and learning phases. DMSSs have evolved from classic decision support systems, executive information systems and expert systems , intelligent systems, W...

PC-based modeling activity by end-users, used for decision support, is dependent upon information from other models and sources outside the functional unit. Consequently, there is a need for coordination of the various functional unit models that comprise the distributed decision support system. To the extent that the information sharing among these models is timely, current and correct, the re...

The increased use of information technology (IT) support for group decision making has augmented the need for research on the performance of groups using such support. The use of organizational memory in IT supported group decision making has been discussed in the recent literature. Proponents of the use of organizational memory have cautioned against the biases that memory may introduce in the...