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Group Decision and Negotiation

Published in cooperation with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and its Section on Group Decision and Negotiation

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Group Decision and Negotiation - GDN Springer Best Paper Awards

GDN Conference Awards - GDN Springer Best Paper
The GDN Springer Best Paper Awards is $600 and $400.

  • Selected papers are expected to be submitted to the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) journal published by Springer.

GDN Conference Awards - GDN Springer Best Student Paper

The GDN Springer Best Student Awards is $300 and $200.

  • The author must not have completed the PhD
  • The student must be the first author of the paper, the supervisor can be co-author
  • The paper must be presented by the student at the conference
  • It must be submitted as a full paper, not an abstract or extended abstract

Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award
To commemorate the late Gregory Kersten, Section President and Editor in Chief of the GDN Journal, the informs Section on Group Decision and Negotiation establishes the annual “Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award” for outstanding papers published in the GDN journal.

Submission and Eligibility Requirements (include deadlines): 
The Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award is given annually to a paper published in the journal Group Decision and Negotiation in the previous calendar year that best contributes to the advancement of the theory and/or practice of group decision and negotiation. A paper is eligible for the award if it has appeared in one of the issues published during the calendar year, or if it is available as “Online First Article” on December 31st of that year. No paper can be selected for the award more than once.

Nomination:
Papers are nominated for the award by the Departmental Editors of the GDN journal. Associate Editors of the journal can nominate papers via the respective Departmental Editors. Each Departmental Editor can nominate up to three papers for a given year.

In addition, members of the Award Committee according to section 4, who are not Departmental Editors of the journal, can nominate up to three papers for a calendar year.

2020 and 2021 GDN Springer Best Paper Award 

Winner: Takahiro Suzuki and Masahide Horita
for: The Social Ranking Problem Based on Rankings of Restricted Coalitions

2020 and 2021 GDN Springer Young Researcher Award 

Winner: Elmira Mohammadhosseini Fadafan
for: Smart contracts efficiency in consumer and supplier relationship

Runners-up: Andreas Paulsson and Aron Larsson
for: Survey-Based Multi-Stakeholder Preference Elicitation with Relatively Incomplete and Possibly Disjoint Rank Orderings 
Aditya Srinivas Gear, Kritika Prakash, Nonidh Singh and Praveen Paruchuri
for: PredictRV: A Prediction Based Strategy for Negotiations with Dynamically Changing Reservation Value

2021 Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award

Winner: Geiger, Ingmar. From Letter to Twitter: A Systematic Review of Communication Media in Negotiation (this opens in a new tab). Group Decision and Negotiation, v.29, 227-250 (2020).

More information about the awards and awardees, and past and future GDN Conferences is available at the GDN INFORMS website (this opens in a new tab).

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