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Two new publications in Entropy
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Two new papers were published by the N.EA team recently in the Entropy Journal (IF = 2.524).
The first manuscript is an effect of N.EA collaboration with assistant professors Rafał Mierzwiak and Marcin Nowak from the Poznań University of Technology. The paper entitled "Reducing Cognitive Effort in Scoring Negotiation Space Using the Fuzzy Clustering Model" presents a new prenegotiation support protocol to holistically evaluate the negotiation space and define the scoring systems for negotiation offers evaluation. It uses the notion of automatic calibration of the scoring space for the limiting profiles predefined by the negotiators themselves. This notion is derived from earlier work by Wachowicz T. (2010). Decision Support in Software Supported Negotiations. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 11:4, 576-597. The manuscript can be accessed online in an open access formula under the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/6/752.
The second manuscript was written in cooperation with late professor Krzysztof Piasecki and prof. dr Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak from the WSB Poznań University. It is entitled "Fuzzy Representation of Principal's Preferences in Inspire Negotiation Support System" and presents a theoretical framework for defining the negotiation offer scoring system by a group of agents similar concerning selected characteristics. To construct such a generalized scoring system, a notion of the trapezoidal fuzzy numbers was used. You may access the manuscript under the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/8/981.
Latest paper with late Gregory Kersten
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Yesterday, as online first, the latest paper was published in the ITOR (International Transactions in Operational Research) journal, written by the research team of late Gregory Kersten, Tomasz Wachowicz, and Ewa Roszkowska. It continues the series of studies devoted to behavioral issues in negotiations. In this paper, we analyze how the motivational mix determines the negotiators' accuracy in the prenegotiation preparation, in particular, in building the scoring systems that reflect their preferences well.
The paper is accessible through a shareable link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/itor.12995
Special issue of the Control and Cybernetics Journal devoted to prof. Gregory Kersten
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We are happy to inform, that a group of Polish researchers and academicians who were collaborating with late professor Gregory Kersten has undertaken an initiative of organizing a special issue of one Polish scientific journal, which would be devoted to professor Kersten, his research and scientific legacy. Thanks to the engagement of many of our colleagues, such a special issue is going to be organized by the Control and Cybernetics journal, issued by the Polish Academy of Sciences and indexed in Scopus. The guest editors of this special issue are Ewa Roszkowska (University of Bialystok), Bogumił Kamiński (Warsaw School of Economics) and Tomasz Wachowicz (University of Economics in Katowice).
A chapter in prestigious Springer's Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation
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SpringerLink has just published as online-first a chapter written by the members of the N.EA team, prof. Tomasz Wachowicz and Ewa Roszkowska, entitled: "Holistic Preferences and Prenegotiation Preparation". The chapter is devoted to the holistic approach to preference declarations that can be used to prenegotiation support of the negotiators. The chapter is a part of the second edition of the prestigious "Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation", edited by professors Marc Kilgour and Colin Eden, that is going to be issued by Springer in April 2021. The handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration.
The chapter may be accessed under the following link: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-030-12051-1_64-1
Prof. Gregory Kersten has passed away
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It is with deep regret to share the sad news about our mentor and friend, prof. Gregory Kersten, who unexpectedly passed away yesterday, on May 26th, 2020. To us, the members of N.EA team he was more than a colleague, as we have been collaborating with him for 20 years. The scientific carriers of some of us were shaped and developed under his fatherly guidance.
He was an accomplished researcher, decision and negotiation theorist, father of negotiation support systems, and electronic negotiations. He was an outstanding organizer of scientific life, leading the INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) for many years, chairing the InterNeg Research Center, organizing GDN conferences, and being editor-in-chief of the GDN journal. The scientific discussions and disputes with him were engaging, demanding, sometimes emotional but always fruitful and inspiring. They allow very many of us to excel in research and understand what true science is.
Privately, he was a husband, father, and grandpa, and his passing away is a great loss to his family. But we are sure there are many researchers and teachers from various disciplines and communities that feel now exactly the same. We lost an important member of our family.
Here in N.EA, we will keep you in our memories forever.
Tomasz Wachowicz / N.EA Team