Group Decision and Negotiation

期刊简介：The idea underlying the journal, Group Decision and Negotiation, emerges from evolving, unifying approaches to group decision and negotiation processes. These processes are complex and self-organizing involving multiplayer, multicriteria, ill-structured, evolving, dynamic problems. Approaches include (1) computer group decision and negotiation support systems (GDNSS), (2) artificial intelligence and management science, (3) applied game theory, experiment and social choice, and (4) cognitive/behavioral sciences in group decision and negotiation. A number of research studies combine two or more of these fields. The journal provides a publication vehicle for theoretical and empirical research, and real-world applications and case studies. 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 group decision and negotiation, not only to the final choice itself, e.g. scanning, communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation and social-emotional interaction. Descriptive, normative and design viewpoints are of interest. Thus, Group Decision and Negotiation deals broadly with relation and coordination in group processes. Areas of application include intraorganizational coordination (as in operations management and integrated design, production, finance, marketing and distribution, e.g. as in new products and global coordination), computer supported collaborative work, labor-management negotiations, interorganizational negotiations, (business, government and nonprofits -- e.g. joint ventures), international (intercultural) negotiations, environmental negotiations, etc. The journal also covers developments of software f or group decision and negotiation.

【译文】该期刊的核心思想源于对群体决策和谈判过程的演变和统一方法。这些过程复杂且自组织，涉及多玩家、多标准、非结构化、演变和动态问题。方法包括（1）计算机群体决策和谈判支持系统（GDNSS），（2）人工智能和管理科学，（3）应用博弈论、实验和社会选择，以及（4）群体决策和谈判中的认知/行为科学。许多研究将两个或多个这些领域结合起来。该期刊为理论和实证研究、现实世界应用和案例研究提供了一个发表平台。在定义群体决策和谈判的领域时，术语“群体”被解释为包括所有多玩家情境。因此，提供组织范围内支持的机构决策支持系统也包括在内。群体决策和谈判指的是与群体决策和谈判相关的整个过程或活动流程，而不仅仅是最终选择本身，例如扫描、沟通和信息共享、问题定义（表示）和演变、备选方案生成和社会情感互动。描述性、规范性设计和设计观点都很有兴趣。因此，群体决策和谈判广泛涉及群体过程中的关系和协调。应用领域包括组织内部协调（如在运营管理、综合设计、生产、财务、营销和分销中，例如新产品和全球协调）、计算机支持的协作工作、劳资谈判、组织间谈判（商业、政府和非营利组织——例如合资企业）、国际（跨文化）谈判、环境谈判等。该期刊还涵盖了群体决策和谈判软件的发展。