November 15, 2011 - Deadline for submitting extended abstracts and full papers

 

Aim and Scope
Group decision and negotiation focuses on complex and self-organizing processes that constitute multiparticipant, multicriteria, ill-structured, dynamic, and often evolutionary problems. Major approaches include: (1) applied game theory, experiment and social choice, (2) cognitive and behavioral sciences as applied to group decision and negotiation, (3) conflict analysis and resolution (4) software, specifically group decision support systems (GDSS) and negotiation support systems (GDNSS), (5) artificial intelligence, and (6) management science as related to group decision-making. Many research initiatives combine two or more of these fields.

Areas of application include, among others, intraorganizational coordination (as in operations management and integrated design, production, finance, marketing and distribution, including coordination of all phases of the product life cycle), computer supported collaborative work and meetings, computer-supported negotiations including internet-supported negotiations and negotiating agents, labor-management negotiations, interorganizational negotiations (including negotiations among businesses, governments, nonprofit organizations, and joint ventures), intercultural negotiations, environmental negotiations, etc.

We invite submissions that present Group Decision & Negotiation research focusing on the development, application and evaluation of concepts, theories, methods and techniques. We are interested in studies in real organizational settings and laboratory situations using a variety of research approaches.

Special Issue of Group Decision and Negotiation journal
There will be a Special Issue of the journal Group Decision and Negotiation containing the best papers presented at the GDN 2012 conference. When they are reviewed for the GDN 2012 Proceedings, papers (extended abstracts and full papers) will be assessed for potential to contribute to this Special Issue. Authors of the papers identified will be invited to make a submission to the Special Issue, using recommendations from the review process and feedback from the presentation to improve and further develop their paper. Papers appearing in the Special Issue must contain significant new material beyond what is in the GDN 2012 Proceedings.

 

Examples of Themes and Areas of Interest:

Technological Foundations		Methodological & Theoretical Foundations
- Distributed GDN Technologies - Virtual Worlds and Environments for GDN - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Methods in GDN - Multi-Agent Systems - E-negotiation Systems		- CATNAPS: Connectedness And Technology for Negotiation And Problem Solving - Game Theory - Social Choice Theory - Bargaining Theory - Collaboration Engineering - Multi-Criteria Decision Making - Conflict Analysis and Resolution - Design Approaches for Collaboration and Negotiation Systems

 

Social and Behavioral Aspects of Group Decision & Negotiation		Applications of Group Decision & Negotiation
- Cross-Cultural and International Group Decisions and Negotiations - Impact, Adoption and Evaluation of GDN Technologies and Approaches - Language in GDN - Creativity in GDN - Facilitation - Cognitive Psychology - E-Democracy		- Business - Policy - Diplomacy and International Relationships - Education - Military - Water and Natural Resources - Sustainability

 

Conference Committees

General Chairs

Melvin F Shakun, New York University, USA
Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Program Chair

Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Organizing Chair

Danielle Costa Morais, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Sabine Köszegi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Michael Filzmoser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee

Ahti Salo, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
Amer Obeidi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Bertrand Munier, ENSAM, France
Bill Samuelson, Boston University, USA
Bilyana Martinovski, Stockholm University, Sweden,
Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Daniel Druckman, George Mason University, USA
Danielle Costa Morais, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Deepinder Bajwa, Western Washington University, USA
Ephraim Sudit, Rutgers University, USA
Floyd Lewis, Western Washington University, USA
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Nebraska University, USA
Gregory E. Kersten, Concordia University, Canada
Guy Olivier Faure, Sorbonne University - Paris V, France
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hannu Nurmi, Turku University, Finland
Jamshid Etezadi, Concordia University, Canada
João C. Clímaco, Coimbra University, Portugal
João Paulo Costa, Coimbra University, Portugal
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Keith Hipel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mareike Schoop, Hohenheim University, Germany
Melvin F Shakun, New York University, USA
Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Ofir Turel, California State University, USA
Ozgur Kibris, Sabanci University, Turkey
Pascale Zaraté, Toulouse Polytechnique Institute - IRIT, France
Petr Ekel, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Raimo P. Hamalainen, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna, Austria
Sabine Köszegi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy
Theodor Stewart, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Tung Bui, The University of Hawaii, USA
Yang Yinping, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Yufei Yuan, McMaster University, USA

Organizing Committee

Ana Paula Cabral S. Costa, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Luciana Hazin Alencar, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Suzana F. Dantas Daher, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Caroline Maria Miranda Mota, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Marcele Elisa Fontana, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
José Leão e Silva Filho, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Norma Shakun (Accompanying Persons Representative)