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Verification of the cultural
dimensions with data from INSPIRE negotiations
Vishu Bunyasiriphant, MMS Thesis, 1999.
Geert Hofstede had studied
cultural differences and suggested the following five dimensions (1) individualism/collectivism,
(2) power distance, (3) uncertainty avoidance, (4) masculinity/femininity,
and (5) long/short-term orientation. With the introduction of new forms
of communication, including electronic negotiations (via INSPIRE), we
come to question whether the Hofstede's observations and classification
would hold true. Thus, this project will focus on the five attributes
in negotiations conducted on INSPIRE. It will also attempt to classify
countries that have not be studied by Hofstede.
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Active negotiation support with a software agent.
Gordon Lo, MMS Thesis, 1999.
This work is based on research in three areas: business negotiation and negotiation support, electronic commerce and Internet technologies. Negotiation via the web is currently supported by several technologies, such as negotiation support systems, group decision support systems and negotiation software agents. Experiences from the INSPIRE system led us to suggest a web-based integrated software environment to aid negotiators throughout the negotiation process and to provide methodological support and advice. We propose - as the first step in the development of an integrated negotiation environment - to aid negotiators with the use of softwareagents. The negotiation agent called Advisor to INSPIRE Negotiators (Atin), will be developed in order to provide active support to INSPIRE negotiators. The goal of this research is to: Develop a software agent, integrate it in a negotiation support environment, and test its use in negotiations conducted by people via a web-based negotiation support system. see also here
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Mohamed Sabry, MMS project,
Directed Studies, 1999.
Analysis and discussion
of gender differences in areas of sociology and management. As a follow-up,
a study is conducted to examine the differences between males and females
in an asynchronous (computer-based) negotiation. Asynchronous negotiations
are situations when people meet at different times, from different locations,
and often experience extensive delays between informational exchanges.
Face-to-face negotiations differ from asynchronous ones in that the latter
lacks verbal and non-verbal (physical) communications, proven to be different
among males and females. The objective of using asynchronous negotiation
is to filter, to a certain extent, the verbal and physical effects in
a negotiation among genders. Other factors that significantly discriminate
between genders are also be discussed.
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Data Mining and Business
Organizations
Kumudini Ponnuthurai, Directed Studies II, 42.466, 1999.
D ata Mining has become
a widely discussed filed in recent years. Many business organizations
have already made significant investments in data mining tools. Even though
data mining provides means to process large volume of data, success of
benefiting from this new technology largely depends on implementation
and incorporating methodologies in the business environments. The fact
that data mining is not a solution to business problems, but a new technology
is sometimes forgotten.
This reports discusses about current status of data mining development,
its use in knowledge discovery process and the future of this new technology.
In addition an analysis and evaluation of a data mining tool, Answertree,
from SPSS were performed using INSPIRE data.
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