Preface

摘要

Group decision and negotiation (GDN) refers to the academic and professional discipline that focuses on gaining an understanding of collective decision-making processes. It is involved with the formulation of rules, models, and procedures to improve these processes. The range of GDN research reflects the breath of the strategic and tactical, social-psychological and economic, individual and group, conflict and cooperation, and software-supported and software-conducted processes. The field encompasses theory building and testing, laboratory and online experiments, as well as observations in the field. Therefore, GDN researchers are involved in the theoretical, experimental, and applied studies as well as in the development, testing, and implementation of support systems, decision aids, and software agents. They aim at helping decision makers, advisors, facilitators, and third parties to deal with difficult problems, make better decisions, and/or delegate certain decisions to software.