1) Conference paper Awards

A full-length paper accepted for GDN 2023 is eligible for consideration for the GDN 2023 Springer Best Paper Award and GDN 2023 Springer Best Student Paper Award (if other conditions are met) if the full-length paper is presented at GDN 2023. 

1.1) GDN Springer Best Student Paper

The GDN Springer Best Young Researcher Awards is $300 and $200.

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

Award Recipient:

Year

Name (University, Paper)

2023

Best Paper:
Weighted Reward Allocation Mechanism for Data Collection Quality
by Ayato Kitadai, Sinndy Dayana Rico Lugo, Sangjic Lee, Masanori Fujita, and Nariaki Nishino

Runner-up:
Comparing Algorithms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Items with Limited Information
by Fahimeh Ziaei and D. Marc Kilgour

1.2) 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 Journal” published by Springer (GDN journal).

Award Recipient:

Year

Name

2023

Best Paper:
The More the Merrier? A Machine Learning Analysis of Information Growth in Negotiation Processes
by Muhammed-Fatih Kaya and Mareike Schoop


Runner-up:
The Effects of Altruism and Reciprocity on the Stability of Nash Equilibrium in Two-Player 2×2 Games
by Alexandre Leoneti and Dimitry Gimon

2) Society Award – Group Decision and Negotiation Section Award

The GDN INFORMS Section Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to research in the field of Group Decision and Negotiation and/or outstanding contributions to the GDN Section. The contributions justifying the award may be recent or they may have been made over the recipient’s lifetime.  The Award will be accompanied by a Citation, to be prepared by the Section Award Committee, describing the recipient’s contributions to Group Decision and Negotiation. The previous recipients of this Award can be seen in this link (GDN Award Recipients).

3) 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

Year

Name

2023

Best Paper:
An Agent that Facilitates Crowd Discussion: A Crowd Discussion Support System based on an Automated Facilitation Agent.
by Takayuki Ito, Rafik Hadfi, and Shota Suzuki – Group Decision and Negotiation, 1-27 (2022).
Runner-up:
Elaboration Team Roles for Artificial Intelligence-based Teammates in Human-AI Collaboration
by Dominik Siemon – Group Decision and Negotiation, 31(5), 871-912 (2022).
Gamification of Electronic Negotiation Training Effects on Motivation, Behaviour and Learning
by Andreas Schmid and Mareike Schoop – Group Decision and Negotiation, 31(3), 649-681 (2022).