An Improved Two-Party Negotiation Over Continues Issues Method Secure Against Manipulatory Behavior

This contribution focuses on two-party negotiation over continuous issues. We firstly prove two drawbacks of the jointly Improving Direction Method (IDM), namely that IDM is not a Strategy-Proof (SP) nor an Information Concealing (IC) method. Thus we prove that the concurrent lack of these two properties implies the actual nonefficiency of IDM. Finally we propose a probabilistic method which is both IC and stochastically SP thus leading to efficient settlements without being affected by manipulatory behaviors. Keyword: Two-Party Negotiation, Joint Improving Direction Method, Manipulatory Behaviour, Efficient Negotiation Models