Abstract
The combined field of group decision and negotiation (GDN) often tackles decision situations involving genuine disagreement – conflicting aims and objectives over specific issues. Decision situations, or problems, that can occur under conditions of conflict can be classified as single participant-multiple criteria, multiple participant-single criterion, or multiple participant-multiple criteria. Here, participants are individuals or groups with common interests, and criteria refer to aims and objectives. A real-world business application is utilized to illustrate the characteristics, similarities, and differences of these three types of decision problems. Formal approaches to the modeling and analysis of all three are reviewed, and meaningful connections and relationships among problems and the methodologies that can address them are clearly explained. A flexible decision support system is one that can be applied to a range of specific situations within a type of decision problem, in order to assist researchers and practitioners who want to better understand and resolve actual decision problems under conditions of conflict. Available flexible decision support systems for this purpose are listed and briefly described, and important issues for future research are suggested. A platform which links many chapters of this handbook is furnished.
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Fang, L., Hipel, K.W. (2021). Looking Back on Decision-Making Under Conditions of Conflict. In: Kilgour, D.M., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6_31
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