This paper attempts to identify and establish spontaneous group decision making in collaborative learning as a new research direction, with particular attention to collaborative learning in distributed online environments. After a brief introduction, related concepts and theories are examined for differentiation of interpretation. The concept of “spontaneous group decision making” is establishe...

This paper develops a robust and distributed decision-making procedure for mathematically modelin 9 and computationally supporting simultaneous decision-making by members of an engineering team. The procedure (1) treats variations in the design posed by other members of the design team as conceptual noise; (2) incorporates such noise factors into conceptually robust decision-making; (3) provide...

Developers of programs for distributed systems spend considerable time designing solutions to various complex decision-making problems. The work described in this paper applies the techniques of design patterns and software frameworks to the problem of designing decision-making protocols in distributed systems. The goal is to reduce the time and effort involved in implementation.. The paper pre...

This paper investigates decision making in self-organizing technology-mediated distributed teams. This context provides an opportunity to examine how the use of technological support to span temporal and organizational discontinuities affects decision-making processes. 258 softwaremodification decision episodes were collected from the public emailing lists of six Free/Libre Open Source Software...

Recent years we can hear a lot about cooperative decision-making, group or collaborative decision-making. These types of decisions are the consequences of developed working conditions: geographical dispersion, team working, and concurrent working. In the article we present two research works concerning two different collective decision situations: face-to-face decision-making and synchronous di...

aggregation operators (aos) have been studied by many schol- ars. as many aos are proposed, there is still lacking approach to classify the categories of ao, and to select the appropriate ao within the ao candidates. in this research, each ao can be regarded as a cognitive style or individual dierence. a cognitive style and aggregation operator (csao) model is pro- posed to analyze the mapping ...