There is now considerable evidence that emotion plays an important role in negotiation. Emotions, such as anger and happiness, affect concession-making, not only in human vs. human negotiations but also in human vs. agent negotiations. Recent research has demonstrated the impact of emotional expressions in morally-charged negotiations. Thus, taking people’s moral concerns into account is crucia...

The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0 architectures, have emerged to support a participatory Web and social computing. These developments are the foundations for a fundamental shift from consumer cultures (specialized in producing finished goods...

To solve societal problems of access to information, the scientific discipline of information security is vital. However, its implicit philosophy of physical containment is not practical anymore due to increased connectivity. To enable authorities to overcome their struggle with requirements and regulation, this paper provides a revision of these foundations, based on the system-theoretic notio...

We outline our expectations for a new bioinformatic and neuroscience of therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation based on the Human Genome Project. Just as The Human Genome Project identified the psychobiological foundations of modern medicine with the new technology of sequencing DNA during the past decade, we propose extending this bioinformatic knowledge base with the technolo...