Diverse types of negotiation support systems have been developed to fulfill the requirements during the pre-negotiation, negotiation, and post-settlement phases. However, to the researcher’s knowledge, there is no system that can provide an accurate suggestion for the negotiator to help determine aspiration utility. In this paper, an analytical approach based on the additive scoring model is pr...

Conflicts over resources can be resolved in many ways, from fighting to sharing. We introduce here a very simple mechanism for implicitly taking turns, the 2-turntaking rule. Agents adjust their tendencies to fight over a resource based on previous encounter outcomes. Agents possessing this mechanism are shown to be effective in competition with agents lacking the mechanism, indicating that the...

No group-strategyproof and ex-post Pareto optimal randommatching mechanism treats equals equally. Every mechanism that arises out of the randomization over a set of non-bossy and strategyproof mechanisms is non-bossy. Random serial dictatorship, which arises out of the randomization over deterministic serial dictatorships is non-bossy but not group-strategyproof.

to measure an unbiased farm-specific efficiency of individual dairy farmers, a shadow-price profit frontier adjusted for market distortion was applied to a sample of 860 iranian small intensive dairy farms surveyed in 2005-2006. this measure was then compared with that of unadjusted measure that assumes undistorted market. a multiple general linear model (glm) technique was applied to the data ...

Charniak and his colleagues have proposed implementation-independent metrics as a way of comparing the efficiency of parsing algorithms implemented on different platforms, in different languages, and with different degrees of “incidental optimization”. We argue that there are easily immaginable circumstances in which their proposed metrics would mask significant differences in efficiency; we po...