A Formalization of Group Decision Making in Multi-viewpoints Design
This work addresses the problem of inter-model consistency for stakeholders in collaborative system design, presenting an incremental contribution by formalizing decision-making within existing paradigms.
The paper tackles the challenge of ensuring consistency among heterogeneous partial models in multi-viewpoint system design by proposing a collaborative approach that integrates Group Decision Making (GDM) and Model-Based Engineering (MBE), focusing on the concept of a decision policy to facilitate collective decisions.
Complex systems are typically designed collaboratively by stakeholders from different domains. This multi viewpoints paradigm promotes the separation of concerns since separate teams, from different business viewpoints, build partial models describing the system. These partial models are naturally heterogeneous. So, it is difficult to ensure their inter-model consistency if kept separately. For that, we propose a collaborative approach that combines Group Decision Making (GDM) and Model-Based Engineering (MBE). This paper highlights the GDM part of our approach and especially the concept of decision policy that enables coming up with collective decisions in group decision-making contexts.