Gregory E. (Grzegorz) E. Kersten
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     Professor of decision and information systems at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University and an adjunct research professor at the Carleton University Sprott School of Business. In 2002-2005 he was Paul Desmarais/Power Corporation professor at the School of Management, University of Ottawa.
     Received M.Sc. in Econometrics and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. His research and teaching interests include individual and group decision-making, negotiation analysis, knowledge-based systems and knowledge management, decision and negotiation support, web-based system development and electronic commerce.
     A founding member and the first Director of the Decision Analysis Lab (DAL), Carleton University Sprott School of Business, the first Director of the Information Systems and the CIT at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, a member of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science, and the Director of the E-negotiation, media and transaction research program (since 2002).
     In 1996 he set up the InterNeg Group; which in 2005 has became the the InterNeg Research Centre.
     A Vice-Chairperson of the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation Section, a departmental editor of the Group Decision and Negotiation Journal and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Decision Systems, and Control & Cybernetic Journal.
    Authored and co-authored 3 books, 25 chapters in books, 58 articles in refereed journal publications, and 45 papers in refereed conference proceedings; developed on-line course materials, cases and an interactive web site for teaching negotiations at graduate and undergraduate levels.
     Received grants totalling over $6 million; principal investigator of an NSERC Strategic Grant ($385,000) awarded for 1991-95, a $168,500 Social SSHRC Strategic Grant awarded for 1995-1999, an $222,000 MEQ grant awarded for 2001-2002, a $196,000 HRDC EU-Canada TrainIT grant awarded for 2001-2004, and a $1,400,000 SSHRC INE Grant awarded for the E-negotiation project (2002-2006).
      A visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School , Monterey, CA; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the National Sun-yat Sen University, Taiwan; senior research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
      Project consultant for the International Development Research Centre Canada, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and a Co-ordinator of the "Canadian management training and development program for Poland", Department of External Affairs Canada.

 
 
  Publications  
  Recent Papers available for download from the InterNeg site (upated).  
  Other List of publications, reports and notes (not frequently updated).  
  Projects    
  InterNeg Research program and Web-based resources for negotiation teaching and support.  
  Invite Software platform for e-negotiation systems construction  
  E-negotiations Electronic negotiations, media, and transactions in socio-economic interactions, a collaborative research initiative supported with the INE Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, 2002-2007.  
  Inspire The first Web-based negotiation support system used mainly for training, inter- and intra-cultural studies and system assessment.  
  Inss Web-based negotiation support system that allows to use different negotiation strategies and tactics, and to negotiate over open and dynamically modifiable problems.  
  Aspire & Atin

InterNeg Advising Software Agent used to assess the negotiation process, opponent and negotiator, and provide context-sensitive advice.

 
  Negoplan Negoplan: A modeling methodology, a software tool and a formal rule-based language for the representation and simulation of complex decision and negotiation processes.  
  Teaching    
  DESC695N Negotiation management, analysis, and support (2005)  
  ADMI822 Seminar in decision-making and negotiation:
Research perspectives, models and technologies (2006)
 
  GCEB 642 E-business models and systems (2001-02)  
  ADMI821V E-business: organization, technologies, and economic and social implications  


March 3, 2006