0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E One example of software process improvement is the development and execution of inspections of software development documents as a mature technique to detect and prevent software defects. Part of an inspection is a meeting where the participants log detected defects and search for more defects. Unfortunately, the effectiveness and efficiency...

Communication among multiple entities is becoming more and more widespread in computing and telecommunications. Although many existing communications protocols and services do offer some limited support for multicast or group communication, the new requirements of multipeer applications make it difficult to find efficient and comprehens i ve solutions. In this paper we discuss the required char...

Group Support Systems (GSS) emerged as a rich, flexible toolbox for facilitators to help move a group toward a goal. Research shows that groups using GSS can be far more productive than teams using other means to accomplish their tasks. However, experience in the field suggests that organizations do not tend to become selfsustaining with GSS until they incorporate the technology into their dail...

As the connectivity of the business environment increases, as a result of rapid technological development, project teams are becoming more geographically dispersed. Given that team members may be positioned on different parts of the globe, multi-cultural issues may become more prominent, providing further complications for the project manager. Project planning and decision-making, therefore, be...

Distributed media have evolved since the time this mini-track was launched, seven years ago. Fueling these changes have been two important trends: one, technological, and the other, organizational. Technologically, many of the media have started to converge—cellular phones and personal organizers; PCs and phones/faxes; Internet-enabled TVs and PCs; the list goes on. Organizationally, we have se...

Group recommendation technologies have been successfully applied in domains such as interactive television, music, and tourist destinations. Existing group recommendation environments are focusing on specific domains and do not offer the possibility of supporting different kinds of decision scenarios. The Choicla group decision support environment advances the state of the art by supporting dec...

Systematic biases have been found in both individual and group judgments, calling for research into debiasing approaches. Although individual debiasing has been studied to some extent, no parallel effort exists for group debiasing. This paper advocates the use of group support systems (G&S) for group debiasing and presents a theoretical perspective on how the impact may be achieved. Special att...

In designing and implementing the Group Decision Support System (GDSS) Based on Internet, many issues should be considered such as information process, communion and cooperation, heterogeneous data transformation, intelligent management, information security, system topology, distributed model base and distributed database, partition of database and model base, system architecture, system exten...

This paper uses an axiomatic approach to study the properties of voting procedures. We propose a new axiom, called “group support,” which requires that an alternative that is selected by a society must be selected by some subgroup of the society. We show that group support and faithfulness characterize a class of scoring rules that we call topheavy rules. JEL Classification: D71

This chapter provides a conceptual framework for research and practice in geovisualization and for visualization as a facilitator for group work with geospatial information. This framework identifies three primary functions for visual representations as a vehicle to support groupwork. First, visual representations can act as the object of collaboration, thus as an entity to discuss, create, or ...