Ascertaining group decision auditing capabilities

Integrating Decision Support and Social Networks

“…Unbinding GDSS development from any preestablished discourse structure frees the user to adopt existing structures, to combine them into new ones or even to traverse among different discourse structures. Nevertheless, in order to decrease the cognitive load in decision reconstruction, the explanation of an applied discourse structure (elements and relationships) should be made available to the final user [23].…”

“…First, we want to illustrate the potentialities of Web 2.0/3.0 towards decision-making and decision reconstruction processes. Second, from the characteristics of social networks, the ones of Web 2.0/3.0 and the characteristics of a model to support decision-making and reconstruction [23], we propose the characteristics of the components needed in a social network for decision support systems. Finally, we present organizational problems when adopting/using such systems and clues to overcome them.…”