A Method of Group Decision Task Structuring

Many decision tasks faced by organizations are too complex to be accomplished by the rugged individualist. Therefore, groups are formed to make the most of important decisions in organizations. But decision-making groups that have often suffered the grinding drudgery of meetings-without-end know how unproductive to deal with their tasks. Having firstly differentiated decision task structuring for group decision makers from problem structuring for problem solving experts, this paper presents a method of argumentation procedures for group decision task structuring (AP-GDTS) in an interactive environment. In addition, this paper explains the implementation of AP-GDTS in Web-based group argumentation support system (GASS). The group decision task used is to determine the growth objective of the general domestic production (GDP) of China over the next five years. Results predicate that the method can support a decision group to structure decision task.