Call for paper

Making Decisions –Singapore Multidisciplinary Decision Science Symposium
12th -13th August 2010
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Singapore Multidisciplinary Decision Science Symposium will be organized by the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, with the support of Nanyang Business School and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. It will be held on 12th to 13th August 2010.

Invited speakers include:

Professor Lloyd Stowell Shapley (UCLA)
Professor Martin Shubik (Yale)

The symposium will be a multi-disciplinary event where scholars working on decision sciences can come together to present, discuss and exchange ideas and to foster inter-disciplinary collaborative research projects. We invite scholars in all areas of decision making (including mathematics, psychology, business and economics) to participate in this event.
Theoretical, empirical, experimental and applied papers are sought from the following areas (including but not exclusive to):

        1. Game Theory

          -Cooperative and Non-cooperative Games
          -Mechanism Design
          -Voting Games
          -Computational Game Theory


        2. Economics and Business

          -Behavioural and Experimental Economics
          -Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
          -Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
          -Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour

        3. Psychology

          -Behavioural Sciences of decision making
          -Decision making under risk and uncertainty
          -Group vs. Individual Decisions

        4. Complexity and Bounded Rationality

Applied papers with an emphasis on decision science and the effect on public policy making would be most welcomed.  Cross disciplinary papers are highly encouraged.

Submission Details

The first page of the paper should contain the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses.  The abstract should not exceed 250 words and should contain at least three (3) keywords and the JEL codes (if applicable). Kindly submit your paper or abstract online using Conference Maker at:https://editorialexpress.com/conference/DSS2010.

Important Dates

Full papers or abstracts are to be submitted by 31 March 2010. The authors will be notified of a decision by 30 April 2010.

Please visit the conference website http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/decisionmaking for conference updates and should you have any enquiries, please direct to kqkek@ntu.edu.sg. Please feel free to alert anyone whom you think may be interested.