17th International Conference Group Decision & Negotiation successfully organised at the University of Hohenheim [27.09.17]
Within the research area Negotiation Research - Transformation, Technology, Media, and Costs the 17th International Conference Group Decision & Negotiation (GDN 2017) has been organised at the University of Hohenheim from 14th to 18th August.
Picture: University of Hohenheim/Julien Vollweiter
In front of the beautiful Hohenheim Palace leading international researchers within the domains of Group Decision and Negotiation gathered for the annual GDN Conference.
Organised by the Department of Information Systems I within the research area Negotiation Research over 100 conference participants discussed their research in one doctoral consortium, two panels, four keynotes, 52 paper presentations, and lively social events.
GDN 2017 conference proceedings include 14 full papers and 55 short papers having gone through a rigourous double-blind review process. Full papers have been published within Springers Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing with an acceptance rate of 17% showing the conference's high quality standards. Short papers and doctoral consortium papers have been published in the Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences each.
The INFORMS GDN Section Award 2017 has been awarded to Prof. Dr. Adiel Almeida (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil). The INFORMS GDN Award for outstanding service has been given to Prof. Dr. D. Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada). The best papers submitted to the conference have also been awarded giving the Springer Best Paper Award to Colin Eden, Igor Pyrko und Susan Howick (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) for their paper "Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Support Systems". The Springer GDN Best Young Researcher Award has been awarded to Tobias Langenegger (ETH Zürich, Schweiz) for his paper "Micro-Level Perspective on Sanction Conflicts: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach".
For the first time GDN included a dedicated student stream encouraging also pre-doctoral students to submit their papers. The Best Student Paper Award has been awarded to Serkan Sepin & Muhammed Kaya of the University of Hohenheim for their paper entitled "The GDN Research Map - An Overview of Research Flows and Their Interrelated Links".
Furthermore, we would like to gratefully thank all sponsors and supporters of GDN 2017, without whom the organisation of this conference woul not have been possible. We want to explicitly thank the Faculty of Business, Economics and the Social Sciences for their financial support within the research area Negotiation Research. Finally, we would like to hand over the baton to GDN 2018 which will take place at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
