Negotiation is a complex process. The decision making involved in several stages of
negotiation makes its automation complex. In this paper we present a lifecycle model of a …

Negotiations are a special class of group decision-making problems that can be formulated
as constrained optimization problems and are characterized by high degrees of conflict …

Some real-world optimization problems involve multiple decision makers holding different
positions, each of whom has multiple conflicting objectives. These problems are defined as …

Conceptual design is a key early activity of product development. Limited understanding of
conceptual design process and lack of quantitative information at this stage of design pose …

Current Web-based search engines presume a category search for a specific group of users.
This approach is appropriate for generalized information searches since it is based on …

Multi-lateral multi-issue negotiations are the most complex realistic negotiation problems.
Automated approaches have proven particularly promising for complex negotiations and …

This paper addresses the conflicting dimension of groupware, seeking the reconciliation of
two very different assumptions about the users' attitudes using groupware tools: users either …

The development of most engineered systems usually involves large amounts of investment,
yet their value may decrease significantly when operation environments change. The out-of …

Complexity of a system grows as more functionality is required by customers and more
unintended component interactions are added to the system by designers as they make …

This paper discusses a new method for the automated synthesis of structures. By creating a
framework to implement the synthesis, several methods are compared for the application of …