How to improve our understanding of group decision making with the help of artificial intelligence

Within science we primarily obtain knowledge of a specific field by reading the published results of theoretical and empirical studies. It is argued that this approach may lead to a biased and incomplete perspective of a research area. It is proposed to also use methods from Artificial Intelligence to elicit, model and use the knowledge of experts. It is expected that especially their heuristic knowledge is relevant for problem solving and consultancy applications. An illustrative example concludes the paper