The Cognitive Complexity in Modelling the Group Decision Process

Abstract

The paper investigates for some basic contextual factors (such<br />us the problem complexity, the users' creativity and the problem space complexity) the cognitive complexity associated with modelling the group decision processes (GDP) in e-meetings. The analysis is done by conducting a socio-simulation experiment for an envisioned collaborative software tool that acts as a stigmergic environment for modelling the GDP. The simulation results revels some interesting design guidelines for engineering some contextual functionalities that minimize the cognitive complexity associated with modelling the GDP.

Keywords

• group decision support systems, facilitation, social simulation