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Using a group support system to implement Evolutionary Systems Design

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Evolutionary Systems Design (ESD) is a modeling framework for such task-oriented group processes as group decision making, planning, policy making, and negotiation. To support these processes, a meeting script based on ESD is developed for MeetingWorkds™, a general purpose group support system (GSS).

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  1. College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University, 98225-9077, Bellingham, WA, USA

    L. Floyd Lewis

  2. Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, 10012-1126, New York, NY, USA

    Melvin F. Shakun

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Lewis, L.F., Shakun, M.F. Using a group support system to implement Evolutionary Systems Design. Group Decis Negot 5, 319–337 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02404638

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