Decisio: A Collaborative Decision Support System for Environmental Planning

Environmental planning projects often face problems such as: difficulties to manage spatial data as a component of the process, lack of coordination of the different areas, difficulties of knowledge access, badly defined decision processes, and absence of documentation of the entire process and its relevant data. Our proposal is a web-based system that provides a workflow tool to design and execute the decision process and group decision support tools that help the decision makers in finding similar solutions, analyzing and prioritizing alternatives and helping the interaction among users. The main goals of the proposal are: Document the environmental process and data, provide tools to support collaboration, conflict management and alternative analysis and make available previous successful and failure similar cases. These functionalities have their human-computer interaction adapted to incorporate spatial data manipulation and geo-reference. The tool is being used in agro-meteorological projects with the purpose of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the decision process and its result, maximize profit and preserving natural