N-SITE: A DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS BUILDING AND NEGOTIATION SUPPORT SYSTEM

N-site: a Distributed Consensus Building and Negotiation Support System

This paper presents N-Site, a distributed consensus building and negotiation support system, which is used to provide geographically dispersed teams with agile access to a Web-based group decision support system. Four teams located in France, Mexico, the Ukraine, and the United States participated in the N-Site project. Each team was required to research the problem using the World Wide Web (WW...

A Consensus-Building Support System based on Ontology Exploration

Consensus-building among various stakeholders from different fields is an important issue in order to facilitate policy and decision-making. For consensus-building stakeholders have to know what others are thinking about each other because differences of their viewpoints cause some conflicts. In this paper we propose a consensus-building support system based on ontology exploration. The key ide...

Decision Support and Consensus Building for PLANiTS

Decision Support and Consensus Building for PLANiTS Developments in intelligent transportation systems simultaneously Present challenges and opportunities to urban transportation planning. The challenges to planning stem from the increased range and added complexity of the choices available to transportation planners. The implementation of IWS technologies, many of which have system-wide implic...

Distributed Negotiation Support Systems- Metagame Analysis Approach

A Web-Based Negotiation Support System

In this paper a Web-based Negotiation Support System CBSS is introduced. The system facilitates a structured on-line negotiation process. It is written in JAVA language and can be accessed easily through the Web. The system has been tested in comparison with face-to-face meetings in simulated labour union-management negotiations. The test shows that CBSS was viewed as a valid alternative to fac...