An increasing number of Web-based systems, including brainstorming, decision-making, and negotiation support systems, are being developed to aid users in solving particular types of problems in various contexts. These systems can be effectively used in language teaching providing learning experience in an authentic setting. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the value of integrating Inspir...

Negotiation is considered in general very context sensitive. Since our research laboratory has successfully developed decision support systems in Australian Family Law, we have used our domain expertise to construct a variety of Family Law negotiation support systems. Family_Winner uses point allocation and heuristics to advise upon structuring the mediation process and provides solutions based...

This paper proposes a set of agenda for the use of a specific Group Support System (GSS) in preparing and conducting structured negotiations. Previous work in this area has established the feasibility of this approach, and indeed the increasing use of GSS’s in many different business processes suggests that it would be surprising if GSS’s could not effectively be used in negotiation. Recent dev...

In a Cloud computing environment, the dynamic configuration of a personalized collection of resources often requires Cloud participants (consumers, brokers, and providers) to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) through negotiation. However, to date, state-of-the-art approaches in Cloud computing provides limited or no support for dynamic SLAs negotiation. This position paper 1) presents t...

The importance of negotiations in traditional and electronic markets has long been recognized by the academic and business communities. Also recognized is the fact that human negotiations tend to be complex, and time and resource consuming. Therefore, software support in conducting such processes is necessary. Nowadays, this necessity is becoming a challenge, as new negotiation protocols are in...

Our Agent-based Software Process Modelling (ASPM) approach describes a software process as a set of cooperative agents. Negotiation is the way in which the agents construct their cooperative relations, and thus the software process. Currently, most negotiation models use a fixed negotiation protocol and fixed strategies. In order to achieve the flexibility that the negotiation of the agents in ...

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With the emergence of e-business as the next killer application for the Web, automating bargaining-type negotiations between clients (i.e., buyers and sellers) has become increasingly important. With IDEAL (Internetbased Dealmaker for e-business), we have developed an architecture and framework, including a negotiation protocol, for automated negotiations among multiple IDEAL servers. The main ...

Role-Playing Games (RPG) and computerized models are old and new Information and Communication Technique (ICT) tools aiming at providing support for analysis and support for negotiation processes. As learning tools RPG aim at providing either players or game organizers with better knowledge of a given situation. They thus constitute social learning support tools. Computerized models in negotiat...

Negotiation is a process of reaching an agreement on the terms of a transaction, such as price, quantity, for two or more parties. Negotiation tries to maximize the benefits for all parties concerned. Instead of using human-based negotiation, e-commerce provides such an environment as adopting automated negotiation. Thus, choosing agent technology is appropriate for an automatic electronic nego...