GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS: THE EFFECTS OF MIXING SUPPORT SYSTEMS ON INFORMATION POOLING, DECISION TIME, AND DECISION QUALITY

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 169-180

  Ngwenya, Joram ^a   Keim, Robert ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group decision support systems; Web based GDSS

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION USE; WEBSITES;

DECISION QUALITY; DECISION TIME; FACE-TO-FACE GROUPS; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LABORATORY STUDIES; SHARED INFORMATION; SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WEB BASED; WEB-BASED GDSS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84969567128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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