Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is now widely used around the world to deal with disputes and conflicts as well as agreement-making and planning. Forms of ADR initially developed in many countries often supported thirdparty decision-making and therefore tended to be more advisory or decisional and less facilitative (for example, arbitral forms of ADR were introduced in many jurisdictions b...

Background Recognizing the importance of having a broad exploration of how cultural perspectives may shape thinking about ethical considerations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded four regional meetings in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Eastern Mediterranean to explore these perspectives relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The meetings were ...

1 University of Tartu, Estonia email: [email protected] Abstract. This paper describes a computational model that we are implementing in an experimental dialogue system. Agreement negotiation process is modelled where one participant is trying to influence his/her partner to agree to do an action. Argumentation is used to direct reasoning of the partner. Our goal is to model natural dialogue wher...

Communities of practice require many specialized communication services, including customized workflow management systems, discussion services, and knowledge management systems. Communication ambiguities create a mismatch between these services and community requirements, and are caused by unclear (e.g. incomplete, inconsistent, overlapping) definitions of communication patterns. These are sets...

As the basis of generating nonverbal expressions in animated agents, this paper proposes factors that account for cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation interaction. First, we introduce theories of negotiation and cultural characteristics. Then, our analysis of human interaction in negotiation conversations in CUBE-G corpus is described. Finally, by integrating cultural and n...

INSPIRE, a web-based negotiation support system has been used to obtain data about cross-cultural anonymous negotiations. One of the feature of the system is its verification of the agreement efficiency. In this paper we discuss some of the possible reasons for negotiators to accept inefficient compromises.

In this paper, we investigate the effect of increased benefits on claim duration and claim costs in temporary disability claims of workers’ compensation. While previous studies have focused on natural experiments created by one-time large changes in minimum or maximum weekly benefits, we focus on the kink in benefit generosity inherent in all workers’ compensation systems in the United States. ...

In electronic commerce markets, agents often should acquire multiple resources to fulfil a high-level task. In order to attain such resources they need to compete with each other. In multi-agent environments, in which competition is involved, negotiation would be an interaction between agents in order to reach an agreement on resource allocation and to be coordinated with each other. In recent ...