Building Thoughtfulness Ontology for Sustainable Decision Making

Sustainable decision making depends on the level of thoughtfulness of decision makers. Thoughtfulness has received little attention in the domain of decision making referred to decision support systems; in an effort to quantify the knowledge and its effectiveness. This trend devalued the intangible input of thoughtfulness required for sustainable decision making. Based on this concern this paper focuses on developing prototype architecture of thoughtfulness ontology which rallies round sustainable decision making. The objective of this paper is to take on board the concepts of thoughtfulness, and develop a Thoughtful Decision Support System. The conceptual basis of thoughtfulness involves three abilities. It requires: 1) an ultimate sense of action and not of inaction, 2) super-relationship with human and natural resources, and 3) awareness of future effects of decisions in time and space. Thoughtful Meta abilities are also chosen to establish the basis of this system. Thoughtfulness ontology may add a value of sustainability in decision making