A distributed decision-making system

摘要

A message based model of a Distributed Decision Making, DDM, System is presented. This model is developed from a survey of the needs of group decision-making processes within organisations and distributed computer applications; a review of this survey is given. DDM extends the DSS concept to one that enables two or more decision making parties to co-operate in using DSS tools. It assumes a framework of organisational decision making which concentrates on the organisation as a political system where communication is important and conflict between groups just as likely as consensus. A brief description of a prototype implementation of the model is given. The use of the prototype has upheld the principles from which DDM was designed.