ABSTRACT
The Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability program has described a model of team collaboration in order to facilitate the understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying collaborative team behavior. The model depicts four collaboration stages that a team traverses during a problem-solving task: knowledge construction, collaborative team problem-solving, team consensus, outcome evaluation and revision. The Integrative Decision Space (I-DecS) allows a work process to be modeled as a series of tasks, along with attributes of the organization that controls the process, the personnel assigned to that task and their nationality and proficiency. It provides a description of the decision environment from the process and organization models and introduces personnel with cultural profiles into the decision nodes. The catalyst for development of the I-DecS decision support tool was a gap in the ability of the United States military to model aspects of work processes that are important in the multinational coalition environment.
