Rustam Vahidov, PhD

Peer-reviewed journal articles

VAHIDOV, R., CARBONNEAU, R. A., VERMA, J. (2025). Using negotiation and large language models in human – to software agent negotiations. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. doi:10.1080/10447318.2025.2502981.

GELINAS, D., SADREDDIN, A., VAHIDOV, R. (2022). Artificial intelligence in human resources management: A review and research agenda. Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 14 (6), 1-42. doi:10.17705/1pais.14601.

YU, B., KERSTEN, G. E., VAHIDOV, R. (2022). An experimental examination of credible information disclosure, perception of fairness, and intention to do business in online multi-bilateral negotiations. Electronic Markets, 32 (1), 217-237. doi:10.1007/S12525-021-00473-4.

AZARPANAH, H., FARHADLOO, M., VAHIDOV, R., PILOTE, L. (2021). Vaccine hesitancy: evidence from an adverse events following immunization database, and the role of cognitive biases. BMC Public Health, 21 (1686). doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11745-1.

AZARPANAH, H., PILOTE, L., FARHADLOO, M., VAHIDOV, R. (2021). How cognitive biases and adverse events influence vaccine decisions (maybe even your own). The Conversation, 170911.

CARBONNEAU, R., VAHIDOV, R., YU, B. (2021). Concession crossover in electronic negotiations. Control and Cybernetics, 50 (1), 51-67. doi:10.2478/candc-2021-0004.

YU, B., VAHIDOV, R., KERSTEN, G. E. (2021). Acceptance of technological agency: Beyond the perception of utilitarian value. Information and Management, 58 (7), 103503. doi:10.1016/j.im.2021.103503.

YU, B., VAHIDOV, R. (2019). Applying social interaction theory to negotiation modeling: Design of e-negotiation system. Information Systems Frontiers, 21 (3), 703-718. doi:10.1007/s10796-017-9772-0.

VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R., YU, B. (2017). The effects of interplay between negotiation tactics and task complexity in software agent to human negotiations. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 26, 50-61. doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2017.09.007.

CARBONNEAU, R., VAHIDOV, R. (2016). A multi-attribute bidding strategy for a single-attribute auction marketplace. Expert Systems with Applications, 43, 42-50. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.08.039.

Book chapters

YU, B., VAHIDOV, R., KERSTEN, G. E. (2022). Supporting users’ utilitarian needs for systems in online negotiations. In Tomasz Szapiro, Janusz Kacprzyk (Eds.), Collective Decisions: Theory, Algorithms And Decision Support Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (pp. 171-191). Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84997-9_8.

Conference proceedings

VAHIDOV, R., CARBONNEAU, R. A. (2025). Customer - software agent negotiations using large language model: An experimental study. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

VAHIDOV, R., CARBONNEAU, R. A., VERMA, J. (2025). Combining preference and large language models in human- machine negotiations: an experimental study. (pp. 69-79). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

CLIFFORD, M., HU, G., YU, B., VAHIDOV, R. (2023). An application of BERT for predicting agreements in bilateral electronic negotiations. (pp. 112-124). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

LIU, Y., VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R. (2023). Can a negotiator build a tough impression without chatting? Implicit power and its influence on human-computer negotiation. (pp. 4097-4106). Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

LIU, Y., VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R. (2023). Human-computer negotiations: A systematic evaluation of the effects of timespan, Tactic, and search mechanism. (pp. 4462-4471). Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

AZARPANAH, H., FARHADLOO, M., VAHIDOV, R. (2022). Crisis communications on social media: Insights from Canadian officials Twitter presence during COVID-19 pandemic. (pp. 4189-4198). Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

GELINAS, D., SADREDDIN, A., VAHIDOV, R. (2022). Artificial intelligence in human resources management: A scoping review. (pp. 1293). Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).

YU, B., VAHIDOV, R., WU, S. (2021). A review of InterNeg studies in negotiations and auctions in commerce. In Liping Fang, Danielle Costa Morais, Masahide Horita (Eds.) (pp. 152-163). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

LIU, Y., VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R. (2020). The influence of avatar on subjective and objective outcomes of human–computer negotiations. International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

YU, B., KERSTEN, G. E., VAHIDOV, R. (2020). Information disclosure in online contract negotiations. International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

LIU, Y., VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R. (2019). Human-computer negotiations in e-commerce: The effects of concession-making and synchronism. Proceedings of Annual Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference.

VAHIDOV, R. (2018). The effects of photographic images on agent to human negotiations: The case of the Sicilian clan. In Ye Chen, Gregory Kersten, Rudolf Vetschera, Haiyan Xu (Eds.) (pp. 127-135). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92874-6_10.

VAHIDOV, R. (2018). Using human photographs to represent software agents in human to agent negotiations. (pp. 102-105). Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies. doi:10.1145/3233347.3233368.

CARBONNEAU, R., YU, B., VAHIDOV, R. (2017). Preference non-linearity and concession crossover in electronic negotiations. (pp. 319-324). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

VAHIDOV, R., KERSTEN, G. E., YU, B. (2017). Human-agent negotiations: The impact agents' concession schedule and task complexity on agreements. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). doi:10.24251/HICSS.2017.050.

VAHIDOV, R., KERSTEN, G. E., YU, B. (2017). Human-software agent negotiation: Impact of agents’ tactics and task complexity on human behavior. In Mareike Schoop and D. Marc Kilgour (Ed.) (pp. 239-247). International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Proceedings.

KERSTEN, G. E., VAHIDOV, R., YU, B. (2016). Does negotiation matter for business relationship? A study of credible information disclosure and perceived fairness. Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Proceedings.

VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R., YU, B. (2016). Effects of negotiation tactics and task complexity in software agent. (pp. 1-5). Proceedings of Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce: e-Commerce in Smart Connected World. doi:10.1145/2971603.2971620.

Conference presentations

YU, B., VAHIDOV, R., HU, G. (2025). A review of decision-making models in automated negotiations. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) TREOs, Montreal, QC.

POPP, A., VAHIDOV, R. (2023). Reducing waiting time for elective surgeries. Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference/Optimization Days, Montreal, QC.

AZARPANAH, H., FARHADLOO, M., VAHIDOV, R. (2022). Crisis communication during health crises: The case of Canadian officials’ social media presence during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2022), Timisoara.

LIU, Y., VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R. (2022). Will negotiating with computer agent change one’s social value orientation? An experimental study. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) conference, Hybrid.

LIU, Y., SAADE, R., VAHIDOV, R. (2019). Asynchronous vs. synchronous negotiations between humans and software agents. Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) Conference, Loughborough.

VAHIDOV, R., SAADE, R., LIU, Y. (2019). Effects of time span on the outcomes of human-software agent negotiations. International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (ICFIT), Nice.

Theses supervised completed

PhD dissertations

2016: Bo Yu, The impacts of the relation between users and software agents in delegated negotiation: A control perspective

Theses committee membership

John Molson School of Business

Undergraduate

Distinguished memberships

John Molson School of Business

Since 2021: Department Chair, Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

Since 2013: Professor, Department of Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

2019 - 2021: Interim Department Chair

2014 - 2017: Department Chair, Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

2005 - 2013: Associate Professor, Department of Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

2000 - 2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

External

Academic

1994 - 2000: Research/Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Decision Science 1991 - 1994: Research Worker/Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Management Information Systems

Degrees

2000: Doctor of Philosophy in Decision Sciences 1997: Master of Business Administration in Decision Sciences 1991: Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems