A Negotiation Model for CSCW
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Manuel Munier
Karim Baïna
Khalid Benali
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present our model for a generic and flexible negotiation service (this material is based upon work supported by the Xerox Research Center Europe in Grenoble and LORIA-INRIA) and its implementation in Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) environments. Within a cooperative work environment, users naturally need negotiation support mechanisms to study possible alternatives in group decision making. The objective of our work is to build a negotiation model independent of any particular application field. Contrary to studied models, our model focuses on formalizing the negotiation from three points of view: exchanged information between the agents to negotiate (the language), the way this information is exchanged (the protocol), and the internal behavior of an agent (the tactics). In addition to a separation of the problems involved in each one of these three facets of the negotiation, this approach allows also a greater flexibility than traditional systems dedicated to one kind of problems. We chose to use a transactional approach based on speech acts to develop our axiom based negotiation model which has been implemented as a negotiation service in our CSCW environment DisCOO [munier99b, munier98a]. After the tackled problem presentation, we will expose the state of the art, then the proposed negotiation formal model, and, finally, the implementation.
Type
Publication
In Fifth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'2000)
Location
Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000
Authors
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Manuel Munier received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Nancy in january 1999. His thesis works studied cooperative systems, advanced transaction models, distributed systems. Immediately after receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for INRIA Lorraine and Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble.
In september 1999 he joined the University of Pau (IUT des Pays de l’Adour, département Réseaux & Télécommunications, site de Mont de Marsan). Manuel Munier is a member of ISI-Know team (Information Security and engIneering through knowledge management) of the LIUPPA (Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour).