An Active Environment to Assist Individual and Group Decision-Making Processes

Most human tasks require a rational decision-making process to be effectively performed. We decide upon the adequate cloth to put on, the restaurant to visit with your boss, the workers to be hired or fired, the projects to be finished, the decisions to hold or to yield in a negotiation, and the responsibilities to commit yourself in a discussion. Independently of the topic importance, some decisions may be taken alone or in a group. In both cases, relevant information is fundamental to understand a problem and analyze its alternative solutions. The needed information may be available locally, formally indexed in an in-house database, or remotely, freely indexed at the Internet.