Conceptual model of virtual heterogeneous collective for supporting group decision-making

The paper considers a new class of intelligent information systems — virtual heterogeneous collectives of people (through avatars) and virtual models of experts. In such collectives, the means of computer technology are used not only for providing the communication environment, avatar is associated with interface for control by real expert of one of the models from the heterogeneous model field and for displacement the model by itself during solving the tasks in collective. The authors represent the conceptual model of heterogeneous collectives in terms of fine-grained functional hybrid intelligent systems and hybrid intelligent multiagent systems. The paper also considers special aspects of virtual heterogeneous collective participants, relations between them, and their inheritance of fundamentals of artificial heterogeneous collectives and group decision support systems.