Download or read book Negotiation Analysis written by Howard Raiffa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterly book substantially extends Howard Raiffa's earlier classic, The Art and Science of Negotiation. It does so by incorporating three additional supporting strands of inquiry: individual decision analysis, judgmental decision making, and game theory. Each strand is introduced and used in analyzing negotiations. The book starts by considering how analytically minded parties can generate joint gains and distribute them equitably by negotiating with full, open, truthful exchanges. The book then examines models that disengage step by step from that ideal. It also shows how a neutral outsider (intervenor) can help all negotiators by providing joint, neutral analysis of their problem. Although analytical in its approach--building from simple hypothetical examples--the book can be understood by those with only a high school background in mathematics. It therefore will have a broad relevance for both the theory and practice of negotiation analysis as it is applied to disputes that range from those between family members, business partners, and business competitors to those involving labor and management, environmentalists and developers, and nations.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms written by Michael Saks and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The 85 papers include reports of continuing research, many of which are expected to appear in finished form in scientific journals at some point. Among the topics are calculating the structure and chaos owing to gravity in the universe from Sir Isaac to the Sloan survey, an efficient algorithm for terrain simplification, the experimental analysis of dynamic minimum spanning tree algorithms, approximation algorithms for the discrete time-cost tradeoff problem, the growth rate of vertex-transitive planar graphs, and methods for achieving fast query times in point location data structures. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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