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Collaborative decision making in today’s knowledge intensive and multi-disciplinary environments is a challenging task. The diversity of these environments and the associated plurality of decision makers’ perceptions of the issue under consideration require the exploitation of a variety of meaningful knowledge visualizations and reasoning mechanisms to effectively support the overall stakeholders’ collaboration towards making a decision. This chapter reports on an innovative approach that offers a number of interrelated visualizations of the knowledge exchanged and shared during a collaborative decision making process. These visualizations incorporate suitable reasoning mechanisms that exploit human and machine understandable knowledge to facilitate the underlying what-if analysis and aid stakeholders towards reaching consensus and, ultimately, making a collective decision.
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Christodoulou, S., Karacapilidis, N., Tzagarakis, M. (2016). Exploiting Alternative Knowledge Visualizations and Reasoning Mechanisms to Enhance Collaborative Decision Making. In: Tweedale, J., Neves-Silva, R., Jain, L., Phillips-Wren, G., Watada, J., Howlett, R. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technology Support in Practice. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21209-8_6
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