This book focuses on negotiation processes and how negotiation modeling
frameworks and information technology can support these. A modeling
framework for negotiation as a purposeful complex adaptive process is
presented and computer-implemented in the first three chapters. Two
game-theoretic contributions use non-cooperative games in extensive form
and a computer-implemented graph model for conflict resolution,
respectively. Two chapters use the negotiators' joint utility
distribution to provide problem structure and computer support.
A chapter on cognitive support uses restructurable modeling as a
framework. One chapter matches information technologies with negotiation
tasks. Another develops computer support based on preference
programming. Two final chapters develop a stakeholder approach to
support system evaluation, and a research framework for them,
respectively.
Negotiation Processes: Modeling Frameworks and Information Technology
will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of
negotiation, group decision/negotiation support systems and management
science, as well as to practising negotiators interested in this
technology.