• Announcement
GDN Section of INFORMS
Group Decision and Negotiation
Tourisme MontrealGDN2007: Announcement
GDN 2007 in Montreal, May 14-17, 2007
The joint conference of the
INFORMS section on Group Decision and Negotiation, the EURO Working Group on Decision and Negotiation Support, and the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems,
GDN 2007 aims to bring together researchers in the area of group decision support,
group support systems, negotiation and negotiation support systems. The conference is open to practitioners
and academics from all over the world.
GDN 2007 provides a forum for those working in the field – practitioners and academics alike – and hopes to bring together members from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. It aims to draw together such communities as the EWG on Decision and Negotiation Support, EWG on DSS, and INFORMS Section on GDN, as well as other groupings.
Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Methodological foundations of group decisions and negotiations,
Social choice theory and game theory
Decision analysis and negotiation analysis
Economics and b bargaining theory
Ethical and cultural issues in negotiations
Protocols and processes in group decision and negotiation
Facilitation techniques and methods
- Support systems for group decisions and negotiation
Negotiation approaches, models and protocols
Game theoretic foundations of negotiations
Empirical and case studies of negotiation systems
Applications of e-negotiations in business, policy, education and environment
- Formal and t technological foundations of GSS/GDSS/NSS
AI methods in GSS/NSS; computational linguistics and machine learning
Multi-agent systems and agent-based support
E-negotiation systems and e-negotiation assistants
Design methods for complex interactions of people and/or agents
Distributed GSS/NS, internet services
- Negotiations and auctions in e-marketplaces
Market engineering
Design of auction and negotiation mechanisms
Experiments and simulations
Architectures of e-market systems
E-procurement and web-based supply chain management
E-negotiation and auction protocols and services
Cooperation, competition, coopetition and integrated services
- Behavioral aspects of group decisions and negotiations
Cross-cultural and international group decisions and negotiations
Impact, adoption and evaluation of GSS/NSS
Language and creativity in GDN
Third-party and facilitation support
Emotion and spirituality in GDN
- Applications of GSS/NSS
Business
Policy
Education
Environmental protection
Deadlines
Submission of regular papers and session proposals: November 1, 2006
Submission of extended abstracts: December 1, 2006
Acceptance of abstracts and papers: January 30, 2007
Full papers for inclusion in refereed conference proceedings: March 31, 2007
Conference: May 14-17, 2007