An organizational model for transitional negotiations: Concepts, design and applications

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-173

  Sankaran, Siva ^a   Bui, Tung ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational organizational modeling; Cybernetics; Group decision and negotiation; Markov decision processes; Negotiation support; Organizational engineering; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149091558     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-007-9078-6     Document Type: Article

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