An Approach for a Negotiation Model Inspired on Social Networks

Carneiro, João; Marreiros, Goreti; Nováis, Paulo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_36

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“…This conversation is related to either a public conversation (where each decision‐maker can participate in the conversation) and to a private conversation (between two decision‐makers, while exchanging requests, where only these two decision‐makers can participate in the conversation). This way of exchanging information (using public and private conversation topics) has been inspired by the social networks logic and has been explored in a previous work 12,13 Decision‐maker is a person who participates in the group decision‐making process.…”

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A web‐based group decision support system for multicriteria problems

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Martinho

Andrade

et al. 2019

Concurrency and Computation

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One of the most important factors to determine the success of an organization is the quality of decisions made. Supporting a decision-making process is a complex task, mainly when decision-makers are dispersed. Group Decision Support Systems have been studied over the last decades with the goal of providing support to decision-makers, however their acceptance by organizations has been difficult. This happens mostly due to usability problems, loss of interaction between decision makers and, consequently, loss of information. In this work we present a web-based GDSS developed to support groups of decision-makers regardless of their geographic location. The system allows the creation of multi-criteria problems and the configuration of the preferences, intentions and interests of each decisionmaker. The presented system uses a Multi-Agent System to combine and process this information, using virtual agents that represent each decision-maker. We believe that with this approach we will proceed in the refinements of a successful GDSS to correctly support decision-makers while preserving the valuable intelligence and knowledge that can be generated in face-to-face meetings. Furthermore, the high level of usability that the system provides will contribute to an easier acceptance and adoption of this kind of systems.

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Section: The Proposed Web‐based Gdssmentioning

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A web‐based group decision support system for multicriteria problems

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Andrade

et al. 2019

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“…This paper is a revised and an expanded version of a paper entitle "An Approach for a Negotiation Model Inspired on Social Networks" presented at International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2015, Salamanca, Spain (Carneiro et al, 2015b). This work has been supported by COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043, by National Funds through the FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within the Projects UID/CEC/00319/2013, UID/EEA/00760/2013, and the João Carneiro PhD grant with the reference SFRH/BD/89697/2012 and by Project MANTIS -Cyber Physical System Based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance (ECSEL JU Grant nr.…”

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Intelligent negotiation model for ubiquitous group decision scenarios

Carneiro

Martinho

Marreiros

et al. 2016

Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng

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Supporting group decision-making in ubiquitous contexts is a complex task that must deal with a large amount of factors to succeed. Here we propose an approach for an intelligent negotiation model to support the group decision-making process specially designed for ubiquitous contexts. Our approach can be used by researchers that intend to include arguments, complex algorithms and agents' modelling in a negotiation model. It uses a social networking logic due to the type of communication employed by the agents and it intends to support the ubiquitous group decision-making process in a similar way to the real process, which simultaneously preserves the amount and quality of intelligence generated in face-to-face meetings. We propose a new look into this problematic by considering and defining strategies to deal with important points such as the type of attributes in the multicriteria problems, agents' reasoning and intelligent dialogues.

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“…Ubiquitous computing provides answers to these issues by improving the way information flows through all the distributed environments [4] and how it allows every participant to exchange knowledge regardless of time or location constraints [1]. However, many existing Ubiquitous Group Decision Support Systems (UbiGDSS) seem to forget about these principles and force the user with either overly complex and slow configurations [1] which no decision-maker with a tight schedule will bother to fill accurately or they do not convey the decision-maker opinion properly into the system resulting in a loss of valuable intelligence [5].…”

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A General Template to Configure Multi-Criteria Problems in Ubiquitous GDSS

Carneiro¹,

Martinho²,

Marreiros³

et al. 2015

IJSEIA

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The study of multi-criteria problems adapted to the context of Ubiquitous Group Decision Support Systems (UbiGDSS) is covered in the literature through very different perspectives and interests. There are scientific studies related to the multi-criteria problems that lie across argumentation-based negotiation, multi-agent systems, dialogues, etc. However, to perform most of these studies, a high amount of information is required. The usage of so much data or information that is difficult to collect or configure can bring good results in theoretical scenarios but can be impossible to use in the real world. In order to overcome these issues, we present in this paper a general template to configure multi-criteria problems adapted for the contexts of UbiGDSS that intends to be easy and fast to configure, appellative, intuitive, permits to collect a lot of data and helps the decision-maker transmitting his beliefs and opinions to the system. Our proposal includes three sections: Problem Data, Personal Configuration and Problem Configuration. We have developed a prototype with our template with the purpose to simulate the configuration of a multi-criteria problem. We invited real decision-makers to use our prototype in a simulated scenario and asked to them to fulfil a survey in the end in order to study our hypotheses. Our general template achieved good results and proved to be very perceptible and fast to configure.

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An Approach for a Negotiation Model Inspired on Social Networks

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

A web‐based group decision support system for multicriteria problems

A web‐based group decision support system for multicriteria problems

Intelligent negotiation model for ubiquitous group decision scenarios

A General Template to Configure Multi-Criteria Problems in Ubiquitous GDSS

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