Modeling Cultural Factors in Collaboration and Negotiation

Abstract

Understanding and predicting the effects of cultural factors in cooperation and negotiation are of significant importance to the mission of the US military. The overall goal of this multidisciplinary research is to develop validated theories, flexible and scalable computational techniques for descriptive and predictive models of dynamic collaboration and negotiation that consider cultural and social factors; generate new theory and an integrated theoretical perspective that encompasses dynamic collaboration and negotiation as processes on a context-sensitive