THE COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY IN MODELLING THE GROUP DECISION PROCESS

The paper investigates for some basic contextual factors (suchus the problem complexity, the usersʹ creativity and the problem space com-plexity) the cognitive complexity associated with modelling thegroup decisionprocesses (GDP) in e-meetings. The analysis is done by conducting a socio-simulation experiment for an envisioned collaborative software tool that actsas a stigmergic environment for modelling the GDP. The simulation resultsrevels some interesting design guidelines for engineering some contextual func-tionalities that minimize the cognitive complexity associated with modellingthe GDP