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Collaborative Decision Constructing Supported by Cross-Pollination Space

Authors:
Anastasiya Yurchyshyna
Wanda Opprecht
Michel Leonard

Keywords: decision constructing; service innovation; information kernel; collaborative environment; creative collaboration

Abstract:
This paper studies the problem of collaborative decision constructing in the context of services society. Starting by identifying the characteristics of services society and new challenges it should face, we present the problem of collaborative decision making and discuss creativity aspects of multi-domain collaboration. We analyze the main risks related to collaborative decision making and propose their initial classification. By having identified the related gaps in science and business practices, not addressed by classical techniques on collaboration modeling, we introduce our approach for supporting collaborative decision processes that replaces the traditional viewpoint of decision-making by a dynamic participative process of decision constructing. This approach is based on ontological modelling to represent the knowledge necessary for discussions, and on services to enable collaborative decision-making. We show how the proposed conceptual approach allows actors to achieve a richer understanding of discussed topics thanks to ontologies without changing their own working practices, and thanks to services that encourage actors’ initiatives in decision constructing and facilitate their collaboration. Our approach is concretized by the development of the platform for collaborative decision constructing, Cross-Pollination Space, which conceptual architecture we briefly describe. A case study on possible implementation of this conceptual approach for service innovation in Long-life exploration is finally discussed.

Pages: 1 to 8

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-143-4

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011