International Conference of the EURO Working Group on DSS and the INFORMS GDN Section

The GDN Section of INFORMS and the EURO Working Group on DSS are organizing the GDN 2014 international conference to be held in Toulouse, France, at University Toulouse 1 Capitole, IRIT, on June 10th-13th, 2014. The theme of this conference will be Group Decision Making and Web 3.0.

Check out http://www.irit.fr/gdn2014/ for more details.

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), negotiation support systems (GDNSS) and more generally decision support systems (DSS), (5) artificial intelligence, and (6) management science as related to group decision-making. Many research initiatives combine two or more of these fields.

Full papers (6-8 pages) must be submitted via the conference website. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes Business Information Processing Series. Guidelines for submissions are available at
http://www.springer.com/series/7911

Short papers (4-6 pages) posters (1 page) and late full papers (6-8 pages) may also be submitted on line. If accepted, they will be published in the proceedings at University Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1C). Invited papers, from the UT1C proceedings, could, after the conference, be published in several special issues.

In defining the domain of group decision and negotiation, the term "group" is interpreted to comprise all multiplayer contexts. Thus, organizational decision support systems providing organization-wide support are included. Group decision and negotiation refers to the whole process or flow of activities relevant to reaching a group decision, and not merely to the final choice - aspects of the process in group decision and negotiation include scanning, communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation, and social-emotional interaction. Deblockedive, preblockedive, normative, and design viewpoints are all of interest. Thus, Group Decision and Negotiation deals broadly with relation and coordination in group processes.

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. See the Journal Group Decision and Negotiation for further illustrations of the scope of the field of Group Decision and Negotiation.