The AGAP system: A group decision support system for project analysis and evaluation

This paper presents the ‘Aid to Groups of Analysis and evaluation of Projects’ (AGAP) system, a distributed group decision support system (GDSS) allowing multiple decision makers to cooperate in the evaluation and selection of investment projects. The system has a state of the art set of economic measures that can be set as criteria for use in several multicriteria decision aid methods. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous usage, and tries to enhance the communications and data sharing during asynchronous group meetings, providing support for decision at individual, interpersonal and collective levels. The system is described at a conceptual level, and compared to some other tools available to achieve the same aims.