Collaborative Decision Making: Complementary Developments of a Model and an Architecture as a Tool Support

Recent years we can hear a lot about cooperative decision-making, group or collaborative decision-making. These types of decisions are the consequences of developed working conditions: geographical dispersion, team working, and concurrent working. In the article we present two research works concerning two different collective decision situations: face-to-face decision-making and synchronous distributed decision-making. These two research studies adopt different approaches in order to support decision- making process, in view to different research objectives. Nevertheless, the conclusions show complementary aspect of these two studies.