Overview
The joint conference of the INFORMS Section on Group Decision & Negotiation and the EURO Working Groups on Decision and Negotiation Support and Group Decision Support Systems will provide a forum for both researchers and practitioners in the field of Group Decision & Negotiation, bringing together researchers from the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The conference will be hosted by Delft University of Technology, situated in the beautiful medieval town of Delft.

Aims and Scope
The field of Group Decision and Negotiation focuses on complex, self-organizing processes that can be seen to constitute multi-participant, multi-criteria, ill-structured, dynamic, and often evolutionary problems. Major themes within GDN include (1) software, specifically Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) and Negotiation Support Systems (NSS), (2) artificial intelligence, (3) management science, (4) information science & technology, and (5) cognitive and behavioral sciences. Many research initiatives combine two or more of these themes.

Areas of application include intra-organizational 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, inter-organizational negotiations (including negotiations between or 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.

Types of contributions
Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing or completed work. Authors can submit abstracts, full papers, session proposals, and panel proposals:

• Abstracts provide a summary of ongoing or completed research and are no more than 1,500 words in length.

• Full papers provide a detailed account of completed research and are no more than 6,000 words in length.

• Session proposals group three papers (either abstracts or full papers) that address a GDN-relevant theme. The proposal briefly outlines the theme of the session and lists the abstracts and/or papers with titles and authors. The actual abstracts and papers are submitted separately.

• Panel proposals describe the key issue of the panel, the way in which the panel will be structured, and list (potential) panelists. Panel proposals are no more than 2,000 words in length.
  

The program committee will review all submissions.  The GDN 201 0 Proceedings will include all accepted abstracts, papers, and panels. Full paper submissions will be considered for a special issue in the journal Group Decision & Negotiation, based on an additional round of reviews.

Submissions to GDN and the Doctoral Consortium can be made at
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gdn2010

Submissions for the special HUCOM track should be made at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom2010

Important dates

1 March 2010:             Deadline for papers, abstracts, panel proposals, and doctoral consortium papers

1 April 2010:               Communication of referees' decisions

1 May 2010:                Hotel Registration deadline

1 May 2010:                Early Registration deadline

1 May 2010:                Final versions of accepted contributions due for inclusion in proceedings

21 June 2010               Conference begins

20 June 2010               Doctoral Consortium

21-23 June 2010          Paper & Panel presentations