Preface

摘要

The Group Decision and Negotiation meetings aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of humanities, social sciences, economics, law, management, engineering, decision science, and computer science. These diverse areas are characterized by different paradigms, methods of inquiry, and goals. But the challenges are common including the problems faced by decision makers who face tensions and the conflicts during all phases of the individual and negotiated decision processes. These challenges require researchers to gain insights into the dynamics among independent entities and the results of their interactions. Researchers, in an effort to provide practitioners with knowledge and tools, construct models, methods, and systems that are capable of aiding decision makers and even, in some cases, undertaking some decision-related activities on their behalf.