A study of two different experimental settings for group awareness information in a web-based group decision support system

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-268

  Jongsawat, Nipat ^a   Premchaiswadi, Wichian ^a  

^a SIAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

activity information; availability information; commitment disposition information; group awareness information; nominal group technique; Web based group decision support system

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953678387     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622011004312     Document Type: Article

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