Towards Group Decision Support in the Software Maintenance Process

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Negotiation Protocol ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Maintenance Process

Software maintenance is an element-key of the life cycle of software. However,the techniques of software maintenance do not consider the diversity and the complexity of decisions which do not stop increasing. So, there are at present a few tools, susceptible to insure the relevance and the efficiency of the decision-making in this phase. The work presented in this paper aims to eliminate or at least to reduce the effect to fall in an expensive change by reducing the time to find a compromise on the adequate change. The development of the decision support system for software maintenance is an answer to the problem. The developed tool allows:-to make a fast diagnosis on the software by using the coupling metrics;-to help the decision-makers of the maintenance, according to their preferences often conflicting, to adopt a change among several proposed. To answer this group decision where various points of view are considered, we propose a negotiation protocol. This protocol try to find a compromise that suits best all the decision-makers.

scholarly journals A Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Framework for Dispersed Group Decision-Making Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 4614
Author(s):  
João Carneiro ◽  
Diogo Martinho ◽  
Patrícia Alves ◽  
Luís Conceição ◽  
Goreti Marreiros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Decision Making Processes

To support Group Decision-Making processes when participants are dispersed is a complex task. The biggest challenges are related to communication limitations that impede decision-makers to take advantage of the benefits associated with face-to-face Group Decision-Making processes. Several approaches that intend to aid dispersed groups attaining decisions have been applied to Group Decision Support Systems. However, strategies to support decision-makers in reasoning, understanding the reasons behind the different recommendations, and promoting the decision quality are very limited. In this work, we propose a Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Framework that intends to overcome those limitations through a set of functionalities that can be used to support decision-makers attaining more informed, consistent, and satisfactory decisions. These functionalities are exposed through a microservice, which is part of a Consensus-Based Group Decision Support System and is used by autonomous software agents to support decision-makers according to their specific needs/interests. We concluded that the proposed framework greatly facilitates the definition of important procedures, allowing decision-makers to take advantage of deciding as a group and to understand the reasons behind the different recommendations and proposals.

scholarly journals Weighting Model for Group Decision Support System: A Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 962
Author(s):  
Hamdani Hamdani ◽  
Retantyo Wardoyo ◽  
Khabib Mustofa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support System ◽  
System A ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Approach Method

This paper was conducted a survey of research findings related to decision-making in groups using weighting techniques This paper conducts a survey of research findings related to decision-making in groups using weighting techniques, therefore, a new weighting model can be proposed.. In order to make a decision, this model works based on the weighting parameters, criteria or decision makers (DM) to give ranking preference in the decision results. Weighting could be done objectively or subjectively by statistical calculations. Subjective weighting based on an understanding or expertise of the decision-making process, furthermore, a numerical value was needed to make it objective. The previous weighting models need to be modified for the development of group decision support systems (GDSS). It is required to accommodate the interests of all stakeholders to link the DM relationship. We formed several groups of weighting methods that currently use for the trend of group decision-making (GDM). It showed that the classical multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models are still dominant in solving GDSS problems, therefore, it was necessary to apply hybrid MCDM with an approach method of stakeholders models and social networks (SN) to improve decision model that has been applied in the previous research.

scholarly journals DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINES THE PURCHASE OF HOUSE RIGHT USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) AND BORDA METHODS

JOURNAL ASRO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Didit Herdiawan Ashaf ◽  
Sutikno Wahyu Hidayat ◽  
Ahmadi Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Support System ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Home Purchase ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Increasing population growth also contributes to the increasing need for homes or dwellings as basic human needs. Many ways people do to meet these needs, among others, by buying from someone else, building it yourself or by buying a house in a housing developer. Houses besides being a basic human need, it is also used as an indicator of one's success and as an asset for business development and an increase in the economic value of the owner. Prospective home buyers certainly have criteria that are considered in choosing a house. Many of the existing criteria are often followed by the availability of more than one choice of the house to be able to meet these criteria. Therefore, the writer tries to try to make a Decision Support System in a Home Purchase that will later help prospective home buyers in deciding which house to buy. The decision-making method used in this system is an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) as a form of decision-making model that is suitable for multi-criteria and multi-alternative problems with the main input being human perception. Combined with the Borda method which is one method of group decision making that can combine the results of perceptual analysis (the results of AHP analysis) from several decision makers. it is necessary to have a group decision-making technique (group decision support system). So that the resulting home purchase decision can be accepted by all decision makers (family). From the results of the calculation and voting process, House X was chosen with 9 votes.   Keywords: Home Purchase, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Borda

Group Decision Support Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
John Wang ◽  
James Yao
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems

Group decision support systems (GDSSs) which aim at increasing some of the benefits of collaboration and reducing the inherent losses are interactive information technology-based environments that support concerted and coordinated group efforts toward completion of joint tasks (Dennis, George, Jessup, Nunamaker, & Vogel, 1998). The term group support systems (GSSs) was coined at the start of the 1990’s to replace the term GDSS. The reason for this is that the role of collaborative computing was expanded to more than just supporting decision making (Patrick & Garrick, 2006). For the avoidance of any ambiguities, the latter term shall be used in the discussion throughout this paper

A Multicriteria Group Decision Support System

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-133
Author(s):  
Nesrine Hamdani ◽  
Djamila Hamdadou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Support System ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Group Decision Support System ◽  
Voting Methods

In the present study, the authors propose a group decision support system (Web-GDSS), which allows multi-agents systems and multicriteria analysis systems to help decision-makers in order to obtain a collective decision, using web services. The proposed system operates on two main stages. First, decision-makers are in a different location away from each other. They must store their location in databases and invoke the appropriate web service. Second, in the case of negotiation between decision-makers, monotonic concession protocol will lead to an agreement using CONDORCET and BORDA voting methods.

A Communication Platform for Group Decision Support System

2021 ◽  
pp. 678-702
Author(s):  
Mounya Abdelhadi ◽  
Djamila Hamdadou ◽  
Nabil Menni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Group Decision Support System ◽  
Communication Platform

In a group decision support system, the various decision-makers have their own information, constrains, decision strategies, preferences, and objectives which are generally not shared or communicated. This implies that the group decision process is distributed between the different entities implicated and impacted by various group members' characteristics. Solution to this problem is to find a decision that would be acceptable to all the decision-makers, following the necessity of a negotiation process that allows the elaboration of a common agreement for a group that faces a conflict on the decision to take. In the current study, the authors propose to establish a communication platform for a group decision support system (GDSS) based on web services, incorporating a multicriteria analysis methods and a negotiation protocol.

The Decision Hedgehog

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Patrick Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Decision Systems ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Impact

The discourses established as the foundations of group decision support systems (GDSS) have been called into question not only in the interests of advancing the academic GDSS field (Bannon, 1997), but also out of the perceived need to plug gaps that sophisticated GDSS systems throw up in practice (Huber, 1981; Humphreys & Brezillon, 2002; Humphreys & Jones, 2006; Stabell, 1987). The limitations of rational perspectives of “decision- making as choice” have been raised (Carlsson, 2002; Cyert & March, 1992; Nappelbaum, 1997). The challenges relate to failures of implementation, the rise of unintended outcomes, the impact of cultures of fear and failure within organisations (Humphreys & Nappelbaum, 1997), and problems associated with externalisation of decision systems designers who “play God” by designing from outside the game for those who are inside (Humphreys, 1989).

A Communication Platform for Group Decision Support System

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Mounya Abdelhadi ◽  
Djamila Hamdadou ◽  
Nabil Menni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Group Decision Support System ◽  
Communication Platform

In a group decision support system, the various decision-makers have their own information, constrains, decision strategies, preferences, and objectives which are generally not shared or communicated. This implies that the group decision process is distributed between the different entities implicated and impacted by various group members' characteristics. Solution to this problem is to find a decision that would be acceptable to all the decision-makers, following the necessity of a negotiation process that allows the elaboration of a common agreement for a group that faces a conflict on the decision to take. In the current study, the authors propose to establish a communication platform for a group decision support system (GDSS) based on web services, incorporating a multicriteria analysis methods and a negotiation protocol.

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