[AISWorld] GDN 2010: Call for papers

[RUBA ALJAFARI]

Dear colleagues,



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.



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

·       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 atc.m.jonker at 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 at unomaha.edu

Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, s.g.lukosch at 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:

·       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 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: Deadline for all abstracts and sessions proposals

1 March 2010: Deadline for papers, 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

21 June 2010 Doctoral Consortium

22-24 June 2010 Paper & Panel presentations



*Conference officers*

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*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
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