The author describes the planning, development, and implementation of a GDS laboratory in a new, technologically-advanced engineering, computer science, and IS building. Based on GDS and other collaborative workgroup research, together with needs assimilated from executives and managers of the business community, we set three objectives for the GDS laboratory. These objectives are: 1) to maximi...

Background: The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is seldom applied in criminological research. This article explores the potential of NGT as a tool for criminological research. Methods: NGT is a highly structured technique combining characteristics of an individual survey and a focus group. Results: It offers various benefits: 1) it limits researcher influence and influence from group dynamics; 2)...

Introduction This chapter explores the implications of cross-cultural issues, broadly defined, to the implementation and use of electronic communications technology in organizations. It discusses various perspectives on culture and diversity, critiques several models of electronic group communication and support systems, and offers a model to consider the implications of cultural diversity for ...

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...

THE ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY gather, manage, and retrieve voluminous amounts of information is essential to decision makers in today’s information age. Because of time constraints, decision makers face not only the problem of information access but also of information overload. The ability to integrate ideas and knowledge from various sources is particularly important for the effe...

Decision theoretic models of group decision processes usually assume a given set of alternatives, about which the decision has to take place. In realistic group decision situations, however, alternatives are often not specified a priori, but are created during the group process from different components introduced by the group members. This paper develops methods for systematically creating suc...

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...

In this paper we study a new role for smart mobile devices: their potential assistance in group-based decision making. Assuming that smart devices implement wireless short range scanning technology, they have the capacity to scan other devices and by doing so, group members can exchange information and decision preferences with other group members. We introduce four mobile services that exploit...

Requirements engineering is one of the most critical phases in software development processes. Requirements are verbalizing decision alternatives which are negotiated by stakeholders. In this paper we present the results of an empirical analysis of the effects of applying group recommendation technologies to requirements negotiation. This analysis has been conducted within the scope of software...

The predicted expansion of the telecommunications market in Europe will place a premium upon the ability of providers of telecommunications services to efficiently configure systems that satisfy their customers' needs. The complexity of the domain will mean that configuration by hand will not be an efficient solution, and some kind of computer-based support will be required. In this paper we de...