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The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

About PERSUADER

We have developed a framework for intelligent computer-supported conflict resolution through negotiation/mediation. The model integrates Artificial Intelligence and decision theoretic techniques to provide enhanced conflict resolution and negotiation support in group problem solving settings. This model has been implemented in the PERSUADER, a computer program which operates in the domain of labor management disputes. The PERSUADER, acting as a mediator, facilitates the disputants' problem solving so that a mutually agreed upon settlement can be achieved. The PERSUADER embodies a general negotiation model that handles multi-agent, multi-issue, singe or repeated encounters based on an integration of Case-Base Reasoning and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory.

PERSUADER Publications

 

1.  Sycara, K. "Machine Learning
for Intelligent Support of Conflict Resolution", Decision Support Systems,
Vol. 10, pp.121-136, 1993. 

2.  Sycara, K. "Problem Restructuring in Negotiation", Management
Science, Vol. 37, No. 10, October, 1991.  


3.  Sycara, K. "Persuasive Argumentation in Negotiation", Theory and
Decision, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 203-242, May 1990.  


4.  Sycara, K. "Negotiation Planning: An AI Approach", European Journal of
Operational Research, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp.  216-234, May 1990.  


5.  Sycara, K. "Utility Theory in Conflict Resolution", Annals of
Operations Research, Vol. 12, pp. 65-84, 1988. 


6.  Sycara, K. "Argumentation: Planning Other Agents' Plans". In
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-89), Detroit, Mich., August 1989.  


7.  Sycara, K. "Resolving Goal Conflicts via Negotiation". In Proceedings
of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88),
St. Paul. MN., August 1988.  


8.  Sycara, K. "Arguments of Persuasion in Labour Mediation", In
Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-85), vol 1, pp. 294-296, Los Angeles, Ca., August 1985.


9.  Kolodner, J.L., Simpson, R.L., and Sycara, K. "A Process Model of
Case-Based Reasoning in Problem Solving", Proceedings of the Ninth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IIJCAI-85),
vol. 1, pp. 284-290, Los Angeles, Ca., August 1985.  


10. Sycara, K. "The PERSUADER", In The Encyclopedia of Artificial
Intelligence, D. Shapiro (Ed.), John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, N.Y.,
January, 1992.  


11.  Sycara, K. "Dispute Mediation: A Computer Model", In Operations
Research and Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Problem Solving
Strategies, D.B. Brown and C.C. White (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers,
August, 1990, pp. 249-275.  


12.  Sycara, K. "Multi-Agent Compromise via Negotiation". In Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2), Gasser, L. and Huhns, M. (Eds.), Morgan
Kaufman Publishers, Los Altos, CA., September, 1989.  


13.  Sycara, K. "Patching Up Old Plans". In Proceedings of the
Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Montreal, Canada, August 1988.  


14.  Sycara, K. "Finding Creative Solutions in Adversarial Impasses".  In
the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Seattle, Washington, July 1987.  


15.  Sycara, K. "Using Case-Based Reasoning for Plan Adaptation and Repair".
In Proceedings of the 1988 Case-Based Reasoning Workshop, 
gpp. 425-434, Clearwater, Fla., May  1988.  


16.  Sycara, K. "Planning for Negotiation: A Case-Based Approach".  In
Proceedings of the DARPA Knowledge-Based Planning Workshop",
pp. 11.1-11.10, Austin, TX., December 1987.

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