Among the most important and robust violations of rationality are the attraction and the
compromise effects. The compromise effect refers to the tendency of individuals to choose …

A key feature of arbitration is the possibility for conflicting parties to participate in the
selection of the arbitrator, the individual who will rule the case. We analyze this problem of …

It is well known that decision makers do not always consider all of the available alternatives
when making a choice. When the alternatives have attributes, these attributes provide a …

We propose three mechanisms to reach compromise between two opposing parties. They
are based on the use of Rules of k Names, whereby one of the parties proposes a shortlist …

Welfarism is the view that individual welfare is the only thing that matters. One important
contribution of social choice theory has been to provide a precise formulation and axiomatic …

Negotiation is a very common interaction between agents. Many common negotiation
protocols work with cardinal utilities, even though ordinal preferences, which only rank the …

We conduct a series of experiments in which two subjects bargain over five options.
Following an experimental design closely related to De Clippel et al.(Am Econ Rev 104 …

New AI technologies have the potential to cause unintended harms in diverse domains
including warfare, judicial sentencing, medicine and governance. One strategy for realising …

Negotiation is a very common interaction between automated agents. Many common
negotiation protocols work with cardinal utilities, even though ordinal preferences, which …

In this chapter, we present an overview of how negotiation and group decision processes
are modeled and analyzed in cooperative game theory. This area of research, typically …