“…Most applications, however, refer to improving decision-making processes in establishing various partnerships (Blokhuis et al, 2012;Sounderpandian et al, 2005;Walker et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2008;Yousefi et al, 2007Yousefi et al, , 2010. Ultimately, the latter research helps to develop decision-support tools, clarifies interests, identifies tradeoffs, recognizes party satisfaction, and generates optimal solutions, preparing a decision maker to optimally benefit from the negotiation (e.g.…”