A Group Decision Description Language and its Clinical Application
Liang Xiao, KanYi Hu, John Fox · 2021
Group decisions are crucial in solving complex problems successfully across many socio-technical contexts. The development of distributed group decision systems are problem-specific, literally with no systematic support and so a high level of variability in terms of their effects. There is a lack of generic and comprehensive manner that can support the description of the actual decision-making processes precisely. In this paper, we propose a group decision description language. The language consists of the constructs of agent, protocol, decision rule, and constraint for representing group decisions generically, flexibly, while maintaining local autonomy. A protocol of Triple Assessment for breast cancer has been used as an example to demonstrate its application. The language has been further applied to a Consensus Protocol and a Coordinator Election Protocol to demonstrate its expressiveness.