Negotiating Successfully in Asia

Negotiating Succesfully in Asia

Re-negotiating protocols: a way to integrate groupware in collaborative learning settings

Research is being done within the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning community to investigate how to apply the approach of Problem Oriented Project Pedagogy in distance learning using groupware. Successful implementation of groupware in distributed collaborative settings is not without difficulties. Investigations of different problems are needed to find how to get distributed groups in ...

The Variable Geometry Approach to International

Negotiations among nations on policies to promote international economic integration have widened in recent years to cover new issues; for example, foreign direct investment rules, policies to promote competition, the international movement of labor, the environment and monetary union. In these negotiations, a consensus among the parties negotiating is usually lacking and many of these negotiat...

GANGSTER: An Automated Negotiator Applying Genetic Algorithms

Negotiation is an essential skill for agents in a multiagent system. Much work has been published on this subject, but traditional approaches assume negotiators are able to evaluate all possible deals and pick the one that is best according to some negotiation strategy. Such an approach fails when the set of possible deals is too large to analyze exhaustively. For this reason the Annual Negotia...

Toward a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched a process that could ultimately produce the largest single act of trade liberalization in history. They agreed to " seriously consider " negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) and instructed their officials to " undertake further studies on ways and means to promote " the initiative so that they could address it at their...