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An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation

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Ding, P; Gerst, MD; Bang, G; Borsuk, ME
Published in: Group Decision and Negotiation
September 1, 2015

A generic framework for automated mediation of multi-attribute negotiation has recently been reported (Lai and Sycara in Group Decis Negot 18:169-187, 2009). This framework seeks to shorten time to agreement, achieve agreements that are closer to Pareto optimality, and remain tractable in situations involving multiple issues, incomplete information, and dynamic reservation utility. These objectives are all relevant to international climate treaty negotiation. Therefore, in this paper, we describe how this mediation framework can be applied to the climate policy setting and articulate a necessary extension to allow for more than two negotiating parties. We then demonstrate application of the framework, employing some simple economic and procedural assumptions. This example shows that automated mediation can add value to the negotiation process without placing an undue mental or computational burden on negotiators. Part of this value comes simply from encouraging negotiators to be explicit about their assumptions and preferences, even ifmost of this information is not shared with their opponents.

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Published In

Group Decision and Negotiation

DOI

EISSN

1572-9907

ISSN

0926-2644

Publication Date

September 1, 2015

Volume

24

Issue

5

Start / End Page

885 / 903

Related Subject Headings

  • Information Systems
  • 4609 Information systems
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3503 Business systems in context
  • 1503 Business and Management
 

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Ding, P., Gerst, M. D., Bang, G., & Borsuk, M. E. (2015). An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation, 24(5), 885–903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-014-9419-1
Ding, P., M. D. Gerst, G. Bang, and M. E. Borsuk. “An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation.” Group Decision and Negotiation 24, no. 5 (September 1, 2015): 885–903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-014-9419-1.
Ding P, Gerst MD, Bang G, Borsuk ME. An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation. 2015 Sep 1;24(5):885–903.
Ding, P., et al. “An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation.” Group Decision and Negotiation, vol. 24, no. 5, Sept. 2015, pp. 885–903. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s10726-014-9419-1.
Ding P, Gerst MD, Bang G, Borsuk ME. An application of automated mediation to international climate treaty negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation. 2015 Sep 1;24(5):885–903.
Journal cover image

Published In

Group Decision and Negotiation

DOI

EISSN

1572-9907

ISSN

0926-2644

Publication Date

September 1, 2015

Volume

24

Issue

5

Start / End Page

885 / 903

Related Subject Headings

  • Information Systems
  • 4609 Information systems
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3503 Business systems in context
  • 1503 Business and Management