GDN Springer Best Student Paper Award

This year the Award Committee chose not to designate a runner-up and instead awarded two equal GDN Springer Best Student Paper Awards (ex aequo):
  • Kazuki Matsuo, Masahide Horita: Blockchain as a Decentralized Allocator: A Consensus-based Auction Model for Multi-Robot Task Allocation
  • Ayato Kitadai, Shunta Yoshimura, Takuya Nakashima, Noora Torpo, Rei Miratsu, Naoki Mizutani, Nariaki Nishino: “Sail Fast, Then Wait” in First-come, First-served Port Queues: Information Sharing for Sustainable Shipping

GDN Springer Best Paper Award

Best paper:

  • Atefeh Jebeli, Manmohan Aseri, Balaji Padmanabhan: Negotiating the Small Stuff: AI Agents for Low-Stakes Group Decisions

Runner-up:

  • Lennart Rukower, Muhammed-Fatih Kaya, Mareike Schoop: The Impact of Pre-Trained Language Models for Success Prediction in Digital Negotiations – A Comparative Analysis

INFORMS GDN Appreciation for Outstanding Service

The 2026 INFORMS GDN Appreciation for Outstanding Service Award was conferred on

Liping Fang

in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) Section. He has been a member of the GDN Section, since several years and served on the GDN Section Board for eight years, being President of the Section (2023–2025). As a committed and active member of the GDN community, he played a key role in organizing the first virtual GDN conference in 2021, following the cancellation of GDN 2020, which had been scheduled to take place in Toronto under his organization, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has made significant contributions to GDN conferences as a stream chair, a keynote speaker, a co-editor of conference proceedings and award committees. He has also been a Program Co-Chair and a general co-Chair of numerous GDN Conferences. Since several years, he has served on the Editorial Board of the GDN journal and is Departmental Editor of Applied Game Theory and Social Choice area.

Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award

Best paper:

  • Tomasz Wachowicz, Ewa Roszkowska: Enhancing TOPSIS to Evaluate Negotiation Offers with Subjectively Defined Reference Points. Group Decision and Negotiation, 34(4), 715-749.

Runner-up:

  • Takahiro Suzuki: Aggregating Opinions on Sets of Alternatives: Characterization and Applications. Group Decision and Negotiation, 34(2), 273-295.