A Proposal of Toolkit for GDSS Facilitators

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-77

  Adla, A ^a,b   Zarate, P ^a,c   Soubie, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed decision making; Distributed facilitation; GDSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650512727     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-010-9204-8     Document Type: Article

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