GDN 2000 PROGRAM                          26 June 2000

 

 

Monday 3 July 2000

 

16:00 - 19:00          Registration                    Strathclyde Graduate Business School

(199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow.  Take lift to the 3rd floor)

 

19:00 - 22:00          Opening Reception                             House for an Art Lover

(Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, Glasgow.  Tel: 0141 353 4770. 

Taxis will run from SGBS entrance, 199 Cathedral Street and Travel Inn, 187 George Street starting at about 18:30.)

 

 

Tuesday 4 July 2000

 

08:00 - 17:00          Registration                    Strathclyde Graduate Business School

(199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow.  Take lift to the 3rd floor)

 

09:00 - 09:10          Welcome                        Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre      

Melvin F. Shakun, General Chair, GDN 2000   

                                                                                

09:10 - 10:40          Keynote Slot A1              Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 

A1.1   Tung X. Bui:

“Negotiation Support in Electronic Markets”

 

A1.2   Margaret A. Neale and Harris Sondak:

“Cognitive Negotiation Theory:  Looking Just Ahead”

 

10:40 - 11:00                   Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00          Session Slot A2

 

A2.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Dyadic Negotiations”      

Organizer and Chair: Harris Sondak

 

A2.1.1 Gregory Northcraft:

“Value in the Context of Negotiation”

 

A2.1.2 Elizabeth A. Mannix and Karen A. Jehn:

“Negotiation Research in Groups and Teams: Looking Back and Moving Forward”

 


A2.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“New Research Issues in Designing Support for Group Decision and Negotiation”

Organizer and Chair: Tung X. Bui

 

A2.2.1 Andrzej P. Wierzbicki:

“A Definition of Intuition and its Impacts on Decision Support and Negotiation Techniques”

 

A2.2.2 Tung X. Bui and Siva Sankaran:

“Web‑based Virtual Information Centers with Expert Negotiation Modules”

 

A2.3: Session                                            Room 505

“Adoption Dynamics, I”             

Organizer and Chair: Doug Vogel

 

A2.3.1 Carol Pollard:

“Assimilating Technology: A Study of GSS Adopters and Rejecters”

 

A2.3.2 Alec Morton:

“Conceptualising Distributed Group Decision Support Systems”

 

A2.4: Session                                             Room 413

“New Research Directions in Multi‑Agent Systems, I”

Organizer and Chair: Suzanne Pinson

 

A2.4.1 Samir Aknine and Suzanne Pinson:

“Software Agent Controllers for Next Generation Workflow Systems”

 

A2.4.2 Flavien Balbo:

“A Multi‑Agent System for Fault Detection in Public Transportation”

 

12:00 - 13:00 Session Slot A3

 

A3.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Distributed Group Support Systems”   

Organizer and Chair: Roxanne Hiltz

 

A3.1.1 Jerry Fjermestad and Starr Roxanne Hiltz:

“Distributed Asynchronous versus Decision Room Studies of Group Support Systems: When Does Mode Make a Difference?”

 

A3.1.2 Rosalie J. Ocker and Jerry Fjermestad:

“Group Support for Distributed Software Development Teams”

 

A3.2: Session                                    Lecture Theatre 2


“Recent Advances in Building Support Systems for Group Decision and Negotiation, I”

Organizer and Chair: Tung X. Bui

 

A3.2.1 Oliver Hofmann and Freimut Bodendorf:

“Agent‑Mediated Bundling of Insurance Products”

 

A3.2.2 John Zeleznikow and Emilia Bellucci:

“Building Negotiation Support Systems in Australian Family Law”

 

A3.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Adoption Dynamics, II”

Organizer and Chair: Doug Vogel

 

A3.3.1 Doug Vogel:

“If these Systems are so Good, Why isn’t Everybody Using Them?”

 

A3.3.2 Panel Discussion: “Key Issues in Virtual Teams”      

 

A3.4: Session                                             Room 413

“New Research Directions in Multi‑Agent Systems, II”

Organizer: Suzanne Pinson

Chair: Alain Checroun

 

A3.4.1 Samir Aknine, Suzanne Pinson, Melvin F. Shakun, and Alexis Tsoukias

“New Coalition Formation Methods for Multi‑Agent Coordination Problems”

 

A3.4.2 Edem Fianyo and Pascal Boivin:

“Control Agents for Multiple Software Cooperation in Environmental System Modeling”

 

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

 

14:15 - 15:45 Keynote Slot A4                       Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 

A4.1   Harri Ehtamo and Raimo P. Hämäläinen:

“Interactive Multiple‑Criteria Methods for Reaching Pareto‑Optimal Agreements in Negotiations”

 

A4.2   Bertrand Munier:

“Risk Information and Decentralized Decision Systems”

 

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 17:00 Session Slot A5

 


A5.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Integrated Multi‑Methodology Approaches to Group Decision Support”   

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Fran Ackermann and Colin Eden

 

A5.1.1 David F. Andersen, George P. Richardson, John Rohrbaugh, Aldo Zagonel dos Santos, and Tsuey‑Ping Lee:

“The Impact of US Welfare Reform on States and Counties: Group Facilitated System Dynamics Modeling, Policy Analysis, and Implementation”

 

A5.1.2 John Morecroft:

“Creativity and Convergence in Scenario Modelling: Reflections on World Dynamics, Global Oil and Infocoms”

 

A5.2:  Session                                   Lecture Theatre 2

“Recent Advances in Building Support Systems for Group Decision and Negotiation, II”

Organizer and Chair: Tung X. Bui

 

A5.2.1 Bala Ramesh:

“Decision Traceability Knowledge Management”

 

A5.2.2 Jiuru Hu, Jerome Yen, and Tung X. Bui:

“Virtual Property Agency: An Electronic Marketplace with Negotiation Support”

 

A5.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Coordination and Cooperation in Agent‑Based Models of Organizations”

Organizer and Chair: Rudolf Vetschera

 

A5.3.1 Thomas Fent:

“Adaptive Agents in the House of Quality”

 

A5.3.2 Markus Feurstein, Martin Natter, Alfred Taudes, and Andreas Mild:

“Dynamic Bargaining in Product Development”

 

18:00 / 18:30 - 22:00 / 23:00                 Tour of Glengoyne Distillery                                  

Dinner at Ross Priory

(Glengoyne Distillery, Dumgoyne. Tel: 01360 550 229

Ross Priory, Ross Loan, Gartocharn. Tel: 01389 830 398

Coaches will run from SGBS entrance, 199 Cathedral Street at 17:20 and 17:50)

 

 

Wednesday 5 July 2000

 

09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Slot B1                       Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 


B1.1   Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann:

“Group Decision and Negotiation in Strategy Making”

 

B1.2   Christer Carlsson:

“Teamwork in Virtual Organizations with Agent‑Based Support Systems”

 

10:30 - 11:00          Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00 Session Slot B2

 

B2.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“New and Unreported Uses of Group Decision Support Systems, I” 

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann:

 

B2.1.1 Gert‑Jan de Vreede and Doug Vogel:

“Collaborative Support for Gaming through Group Support Systems”

 

B2.1.2 Fran Ackermann and Colin Eden:

“Taking GSS to Court ‑ Some Observations on how GSS can be Used for Litigation”

 

B2.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“Issues in Strategic Decision Support, I”

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Alma Whiteley and Des Klass:

 

B2.2.1 John De Reuck, Olive Schmidenberg, and Des Klass:

“An Expanded Role for the GSS Facilitator: Vindicating Intervention Strategies for Monitoring the Soundness of Argument in GSS Environments”

 

B2.2.2 Alma Whiteley and Des Klass:

“Complex Adaptive Systems Theory and Integrative Connectedness”

 

B2.3: Session                                    Room 505

“Conflict Resolution and Distributed Decisions Based on Multiple Criteria Decision Techniques”

Organizer and Chair:         Peri  H. Iz

 

B2.3.1 Freerk A. Lootsma:

“Criteria Weighting and Information Transmission in Distributed Multi‑Criteria Decision-Making”

 

B2.3.2 Johannes S. Timmermans and Giampiero E.G. Beroggi:

“Conflict Resolution in Urban Management”

 

12:00 - 13:00 Session Slot B3

 


B3.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Exploring Organizational Participants in Depth Response to GDSS use”

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann:

 

B3.1.1 Duncan Shaw:

“Exploring How People Share Knowledge During Groupwork Using Computer Technology”

 

B3.1.2 I. S. Mayer:

“GDR as an Evaluation and Accounting Tool in Gaming:  Some Theoretical and Practical Notions based on the IncoDelta Game”

 

B3.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“Issues in Strategic Decision Support, II”

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Alma Whiteley and Des Klass:

 

B3.2.1 Kees van der Heijden and Alma Whiteley:

“Scenario Thinking, Complex Adaptive Systems and GSS:  Co‑Creation of Meaning in the Adjacent Space”

 

B3.2.2 Jervis Whiteley:

“GSS as an Enabler of Grounded Theory Methodology”

 

B3.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Computer Supported Negotiation Processes”

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: Harri Ehtamo, Greg Kersten, and Raimo Hämäläinen

 

B3.3.1 Gregory Kersten:

“Efficient and Inefficient Compromises in Negotiations”

 

B3.3.2 Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Eero Kettunen:

“Joint Gains: Global Negotiation Support on the Internet”

 

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

 

14:15 - 15:45 Keynote Slot B4                       Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 

B4.1   Melvin F. Shakun:

“Unbounded Rationality”

 

B4.2   D. Marc Kilgour:

“Coalition Analysis in Group Decision Support”

 

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break


16:00 - 17:00 Session Slot B5

 

B5.1: Panel                                       Lecture Theatre 1

“The Role of Group Decision Support Systems in Making Strategy”

Organizer and Chair: Fran Ackermann

 

Panelists:     Colin Eden, George Richardson, and Bob Briggs

 

B5.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: New Developments”

Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs: D. Marc Kilgour and Liping Fang

 

B5.2.1 D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang, Keith W. Hipel, and Xiaoyong Peng:

“An Overview of GMCR II, A Decision Support System for Interactive Decision-Making”

 

B5.2.2 Liping Fang, Sara Ross, and Keith W. Hipel:

“Performance of a Case‑Based Reasoning System for Conflict Resolution”

 

B5.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Evaluating Collaborative Technologies”

Chair: Karen Gunter

 

B5.3.1 Jim Sheffield:

“Electronic Dialogue and Strategic Evaluation: An Interpretive Perspective”

 

B5.3.2 Karen Gunter and Paul Butler:

“Using Collaborative Technologies to Support Group Decision Making: An Evaluation and Critique”

 

17:00 - 17:30 B6: Business Meeting               Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation

 

17:00 - 18:30 B7: Software Demonstrations       Lecture Theatre 2 and Room 505

 

 

Thursday 6 July 2000

 

09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Slot C1                       Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 

C1.1   Kalyan Chatterjee and Hamid Sabourian

N-Person Bargaining and Strategic Complexity”

 

C1.2   Hannu Nurmi:

“Preference Modelling and Group Choice”


 

10:30 - 11:00          Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00 Session Slot C2

 

C2.1:  Session                                            Lecture Theatre 1

 “New Opportunities and Continuing Challenges in Group Support Systems”

Organizer and Chair: L. Floyd Lewis

 

C2.1.1 L. Floyd Lewis, Joseph E. Garcia, and Kenneth S. Keleman:

“Continuing Obstacles and New Opportunities for Organizational Adoption of GSS”

 

C2.1.2 Deepinder Bajwa:

“Group Support Systems: Enhancing Electronic Meetings through Advanced Information Technologies”

 

C2.2: Session                                    Lecture Theatre 2

“Measuring Voting Power”        

Organizer and Chair: Hannu Nurmi

 

C2.2.1 Moshé Machover:

“Influence and Expected Payoff: Two Conceptions of A Priori Voting Power”

 

C2.2.2 Mika Widgrén:

“Power Indices and Spatial Voting Games in Institutional Design”

 

C2.3: Session                                    Room 505

“Logic-Based Modelling”

Chair: Gregory Kersten

 

C2.3.1 Stan Szpakowicz, Gregory Kersten, and Emre Erkol:

“Multi‑player Negoplan: Modelling Decision Processes with Multiple Behaviour Patterns”

 

12:00 - 13:00 Session Slot C3

 

C3.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Technology Use by Teams over Time”

Organizer and Chair: Laku Chidambaram

 

C3.1.1 Kelly Burke and Kregg Aytes:

“Preference for Procedural Ordering among Distributed Groups: Can Repeated Interaction Affect Outcomes?”

 


C3.1.2 Tim Hill and Laku Chidambaram:

“Web‑based Support for Traditional Learning: Patterns of Use over Time”

 

C3.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“Procedural Approaches to Envy‑Freeness: Theory and Implementation”   

Organizer and Chair: Matthias Raith

 

C3.2.1 Francis Edward Su:

“Bidding and Asking Procedures for the Allocation of Goods and Burdens”

 

C3.2.2 Matthias G. Raith

“An Internet Mediation Support System for Multilateral Fair Division Problems”

 

C3.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Empirical Work in International Negotiation”

Organizer: Rudolf Vetschera

Chair: Gregory Kersten

 

C3.3.1 Gregory Kersten and Rudolf Vetschera:

“Cultural Influences in Anonymous Negotiations”

 

C3.3.2 Rudolf Vetschera and Greg Kersten:

“User Attitudes and Satisfaction in Web‑Based Negotiation”

 

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

 

14:15 - 15:45 Keynote Slot C4                       Sir William Duncan Lecture Theatre

 

C4.1   Nick Jennings:

“Automated Haggling: Building Artificial Negotiators”

 

C4.2   Gregory Kersten and Sunil J. Noronha:

“Modeling Distributive and Integrative Negotiations”

 

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 17:00 Session Slot C5

 

C5.1: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 1

“Decision Making in Organizations”     

Organizer and Chair:         Murray Turoff

 

C5.1.1 Bartel Van de Walle, Brian Whitworth, and Murray Turoff:

“Do Group Decisions Represent Group Member Choices?”

 


C5.1.2 Brian Whitworth, Bartel Van de Walle, and Murray Turoff:

“Beyond Rational Group Decision Making”

 

C5.2: Session                                             Lecture Theatre 2

“A Creative Overview of Negotiations”

Organizer and Chair:         Akira Ishikawa

 

C5.2.1 Takayuki Toyama:

“Negotiations Via Creative Simulation Model through Structure Matrix Technology”

 

C5.2.2 Stephen Turnbull:

“Efficient Institutions for Negotiating Customized System Products”

 

C5.3: Session                                             Room 505

“Similarities and Differences Among Participants”

Chair: Fattaneh Cauley

 

C5.3.1 Ahti Salo and Raimo Hämäläinen:

“Supporting Group Decision Making with Preference Programming”

 

C5.3.2 Fattaneh Cauley and James Dworkin:

“An Investigation of Gender Related Differences In Negotiations”

 

19:00 – 22:30 / 23:00        Banquet                         New Lanark Mill Hotel

(New Lanark Mill Hotel, New Lanark.  Tel: 01555 667 200.

Coaches will run from SGBS entrance, 199 Cathedral Street at 18:00.)

 

 

Friday 7 July 2000

 

No organized events.

Small rooms for self-organized meetings will be available in the Department of Management Science, Strathclyde University.

Recommended day for self-organized tourism (day-trips to Edinburgh, up the coast, etc.)