Including notions of fairness in development of an integrated multi-agent online dispute resolution environment

  • Authors:
  • Brooke Abrahams;John Zeleznikow

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Management and Information Systems, Victoria University;School of Management and Information Systems, Victoria University

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper describes the development of an integrated multi-agent online dispute resolution environment called IMODRE that was designed to assist parties involved in Australian family law disputes achieve legally fairer negotiated outcomes. The system extends our previous work in developing negotiation support systems Family_Winner and AssetDivider. In this environment one agent uses a Bayesian Belief Network expertly modeled with knowledge of the Australian Family Law domain to advise disputants of their Best Alternatives to Negotiated Agreements by way of a percentage property split. Another agent incorporates this percentage split into an integrative bargaining process and applies heuristics and game theory to equitably distribute marital property assets and facilitate further trade-offs. The purpose of the system is to add greater fairness to family property law negotiations.