Toward implementing a mobile collaborative system

Advances in the mobile communication technology has increased the possibility of linking interdependent or individual decision making units together in an organization, and providing them with tools to facilitate decision support and problem solving. This paper explores how we align a mobile system with collaborative decision support as a critical enhancement. The designer of mobile collaborative systems architecture (MoCoSA) should consider making the communication patterns and protocols in different ways, thus creating realistic system architecture for decision support and problem solving within the resource constraints. The effectiveness of a MoCoSA system depends upon a number of factors such as the task characteristics, the decision maker characteristics, the nature of the system, and application environment. This study develops a design framework of a general collaborative decision support system in a mobile environment and demonstrate its prototype implementation.