Mediation with Incomplete Information: Approaches to Suggest Potential Agreements

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 561-597

  Sarabando, Paula ^a   Dias, Luís C ^b   Vetschera, Rudolf ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF VISEU   (Portugal)

^b INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dance of the packages; Incomplete information; Integrative negotiation; Mediation; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875577389     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-012-9283-9     Document Type: Article

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