GROUP DECISION & NEGOTIATION 2010
Call for papers
Delft, The Netherlands
21-24 June 2010
http://www.GDN2010.tbm.tudelft.nl
Group Decision & Negotiation 2010, the 11th annual meeting in the GDN sequence, will take
place in Delft, The Netherlands. 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 & 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.
Topics include, but are not limited, to the following themes and areas of interest:
Technological Foundations, for example:
 Distributed GDN Technologies
 Virtual worlds and environments for GDN
 AI methods in GDN
 Multi-agent systems
 E-negotiation systems
Methodological & Theoretical Foundations, for example:
 Game theory
 Social Choice theory
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Bargaining theory
Collaboration Engineering
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Design approaches for collaboration and negotiation systems
Social and Behavioral Aspects of Group Decision & Negotiation, for example:
 Cross-cultural and international Group Decisions and Negotiations
 Impact, adoption and evaluation of GDN technologies and approaches
 Language in GDN
 Creativity in GDN
 Emotion in GDN
 Facilitation
Applications of Group Decision & Negotiation, for example in
 Business
 Policy
 Education
 Military
Special Track: Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HUCOM)
GDN2010 will host a special track for original and unpublished papers on Human Factors and
Computational Models in Negotiation. Papers describing novel ideas and applications in all
areas related to human factors and computational models in negotiation, preference
elicitation, recommendations, or group decision are of interest.
For more information on HUCOM, see http://mmi.tudelft.nl/hucom2010 or contact Catholijn
Jonker at c.m.jonker@tudelft.nl.
Special Event: Doctoral Consortium
GDN2010 will host a Doctoral Consortium. The consortium will offer PhD researchers an
opportunity to present and discuss their dissertation research progress with other students
and faculty. Consortium participants will receive feedback and suggestions regarding their
research. Participating faculty will engage in discussions on academic research in GDN and the
academic community in general. The GDN2010 Consortium will be held on 21 June, just
before the conference.
PhD researchers are invited to submit a short paper that gives an overview of their research.
The paper should be limited to 6,000 words, and include the following: problem statement,
research question(s), literature review, theoretical/technical model or framework, research
method, preliminary findings, and planning.
For more information on the Doctoral Consortium, please contact:
Robert Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha, rbriggs@unomaha.edu
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl
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:
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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 GDNrelevant 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 2010 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 February 2010:
1 March 2010:
1 April 2010:
1 May 2010:
1 May 2010:
1 May 2010:
21 June 2010
21 June 2010
22-24 June 2010
Deadline for all abstracts and sessions proposals
Deadline for papers, panel proposals, and doctoral consortium papers
Communication of referees' decisions
Hotel Registration deadline
Early Registration deadline
Final versions of accepted contributions due for inclusion in proceedings
Conference begins
Doctoral Consortium
Paper & Panel presentations
CONFERENCE OFFICERS
General chairs
D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University
Melvin F. Shakun, New York University
Program chair
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Program chair HUCOM Track
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology
Organizing chairs
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology
Doctoral consortium chairs
Robert Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fran Ackermann, University of Strathclyde
Adiel Almeida, Federal University of Pernambuco
Deepinder Bajwa, Western Washington University
Imed Boughzala, National Institute of Telecommunications-France
Robert Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jim Bryant, Sheffield Hallam University
Tung Bui, University of Hawaii
Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University
Joao Paulo Costa, University of Coimbra
Colin Eden, University of Strathclyde
Jamshid Etezadi, Concordia University
Raimo Hamalainen, Helsinki University of Technology
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology
Matthias Jarke, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology
Gregory Kersten, Concordia University
Ozgur Kibris, Sabanci University
D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University
Des Klass, Curtin university of Technology
Sabine Koeszegi, University of Vienna
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology
Igor Mayer, Delft University of Technology
Hannu Nurmi, University of Turku
Amer Obeidi, University of Waterloo
Roni Reiter-Palmon, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ahti Salo, Helsinki University of Technology
Bill Samuelson, Boston University
Mareike Schoop, University of Höhenheim
Melvin Shakun, New York University
Ofir Turel, California State University
Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna
Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andrzej Wierzbicki, National Institute of Telecommunications-Poland
Yufei Yuan, McMaster University
Pascale Zaraté, Université Paul Sabatier
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University