Incorporating issues of fairness into development of a multi-agent negotiation support system

Zeleznikow, John; Abrahams, Brooke

doi:10.1145/1568234.1568254

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“…Zeleznikow and Abrahams [31] are concerned on the issues of fairness in the negotiation process. Especially in family law, differences in power between men and women may lead to negotiated results that favor men [31].…”

Section: Ci-based Odrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Especially in family law, differences in power between men and women may lead to negotiated results that favor men [31]. Bargaining imbalances can thus produce unfair results unless mediators or negotiation support systems overcome them [31]. The authors explored the use of multi-agent in the negotiation support system to assist the disputants to achieve legally fairer negotiated outcomes.…”

Section: Ci-based Odrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among the traits of intelligent agents that the authors believe will support the negotiation support systems are reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects [31]. The multi-agent platform allows part of the negotiation process to be automated [31].…”

Section: Ci-based Odrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Setting-up a Sulh-based, community mediation-type of online dispute resolution (ODR) in Malaysia

Hassan

Khan

Shaikhli

et al. 2013

2013 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M)

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Islam is a way of life that guides the Muslims from all perspectives, and as portion of Islam, it also promotes peace and conciliation in resolving disputes. The Al-Quran provides guidelines in dispute resolution through a third party called Sulh. Sulh refers to the process of mediation, arbitration and reconciliation that takes place when the parties involved agree on a process of resolving a dispute with a third party mediator, who eventually will ensure that both disputed parties will be satisfied by the outcomes. This work is focused on community mediation, which involved with the disputes between the community members. In Malaysia, Sulh were actually practiced by the Malays prior to the time of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. The session will be conducted by a third party who normally a respected and elder person in the society, whom also held the position as the headman (Penghulu or Ketua Kampung) or Imam (a religious leader). Nowadays, given the plural society of Malaysia, and the era of Internet, it is crucial for Sulh to be available online. With the use of ICT tools, Sulh can be promoted to society, and if it is a part of e-government efforts, then it will encourage the society to be involved with the government's mission. The online Sulh will not merely act as an interface for those parties involved. The challenges of making the online system secured, the correct ways of ensuring the data accuracy, understanding on methods that will be used for data propagation (among others), are existed in the domain of Computer Science (CS). There are many possible CS approaches, but the work will focus on Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques, with special interest in connectionist models.

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Section: Ci-based Odrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Setting-up a Sulh-based, community mediation-type of online dispute resolution (ODR) in Malaysia

Hassan

Khan

Shaikhli

et al. 2013

2013 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M)

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“…For instance, the use of a BATNA agent, an agent that has the knowledge necessary to compute the value of the BATNA, using Toulmin argument structures providing a "mechanism for decomposing a task into sub-tasks" has been pointed out [2]. Similarly, the possibility of the BATNA agent being modified in order to "include current case data and incorporate changes to law" is an important development [23]. The role of technology is becoming more appealing especially for the task of determining or establishing objective BATNAs [6].…”

Section: The Role Of Batna (Best Alter Native To a Negotiated Agr Eemmentioning

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Using BATNAs and WATNAs in Online Dispute Resolution

Andrade

Nováis

Carneiro

et al. 2010

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

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Abstr act. When contracting through software agents, disputes will inevitably arise. Thus there is an urgent need to find alternatives to litigation for resolving conflicts. Methods of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) need to be considered to resolve such disputes. Having agents understanding what the dispute is about, managing all interaction between the parties and even formulating proposed solutions is an important innovation. Hence it is of the utmost relevance that the agents may be able to recognise and evaluate the facts, the position of the parties and understand all the relevant data. In many circumstances, risk management and avoidance will be a crucial point to be considered. In this sense we analyze the usefulness of a parallel concept to BATNA-Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement, that of a WATNA-Worst Alternative to Negotiated Agreement, allowing the software agents to consider the space between BATNA and WATNA as a useful element to be taken into account when making or accepting a proposal. These software agents embodied with intelligent techniques are integrated in an architecture designed to provide support to the ODR in a system we have developed for the resolution of labour disputes-UMCourt. In this context software agents are used to compute and provide the parties with the best and worst alternative to a negotiated agreement.

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