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NEGOTIATING COMPLEX CONTRACTS
Mark Klein, MIT Sloan School of Management
Monday December 4, 2006 4:00-5:30 pm
3 Cambridge Center, MIT Building NE20, Room 336 Conference Room
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Abstract
Work to date on negotiation protocols has focused almost exclusively on defining contracts consisting of one or a few independent issues and relatively small number of possible contracts. Many real-world contracts, by contrast, are much more complex, consisting of multiple inter-dependent issues and intractably large contract spaces. This talk will describe two novel classes of negotiation protocols that achieve near-optimal social welfare.
Speaker bio
Dr. Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, an Affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and AI Lab, and an Affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute. His research focuses on understanding the cross-cutting fundamentals of coordination and applying these insights to help create better human organizations and software systems. He has made contributions in the areas of computer-supported conflict management for collaborative design, design rationale capture, business process re-design, exception handling in distributed systems, service discovery, negotiation algorithms and, more recently, 'collective intelligence' systems to help people collaboratively address complex problems like climate change.
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