The book series, Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation-as an extension of the journal, Group Decision and Negotiation-is motivated by unifying approaches to group decision and negotiation processes. These processes are purposeful, adaptive, and complex-cybernetic and self-organizing-and involve relation and coordination in multiplayer, multicriteria, ill-structured, evolving dynamic problems in which players (agents) both cooperate and conflict. These processes are purposeful complex adaptive systems.Group decision and negotiation involves the whole process or flow of activities relevant to group decision and negotiation-such as communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation, social-emotional interaction, coordination, leadership, and the resulting action choice.Areas of application include intra-organizational coordination (as in local/global strategy, operations management and integrated design, production, finance, marketing, and distribution-e.g., as for new products), computer-supported collaborative work, labor-management negotiation, inter-organizational negotiation (business, government, and nonprofits), electronic negotiation and commerce, mobile technology, culture and negotiation, inter-cultural and international relations and negotiation, globalization, terrorism, and environmental negotiation.More information about this series at