A Design of Web-based GDSS that Supports Anonymous Communication and the Convergent Process

摘要

Most of the successful supporting frameworks of anonymous communication in group decision support systems (GDSS) are designed for the divergence phase in a decision process. Not many GDSS designs address the later convergence phase where participants through discussion seek a conclusion or an answer. This paper presents a new design for a Web-based GDSS that supports anonymous communication for the convergent process. We also illustrate an implementation of a prototype system and offer an evaluation using a decision making experiment of document selection.