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Toward Identifying Process Models in Ad Hoc and Distributed Teams

Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, and Gita Sukthankar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom '08), pp. 55 - 62, December, 2008

Abstract

This article reports work on first steps toward characterizing a negotiation process model for ad hoc and distributed groups or teams, so that automation can more accurately track the states of a negotiation from human discourse. We devised three experimental scenarios and ran human subject experiments that involved group decision-making and consensus building. Our experiments showed that the communication patterns of successful distributed ad hoc teams differed in two significantly different conditions. We describe our motivations, experimental design and results.

Notes
This research has been funded in part by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001. ISBN: 978-90-813811-1-6 Available in ACM Digital Library.

BibTeX

@conference{Giampapa-2008-10136,
author = {Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Katia Sycara and Gita Sukthankar},
title = {Toward Identifying Process Models in Ad Hoc and Distributed Teams},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 1st International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom '08)},
year = {2008},
month = {December},
editor = {Koen V. Hindriks and Willem-Paul Brinkman},
pages = {55 - 62},
publisher = {Delft University of Technology},
address = {Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands},
keywords = {Communication process model, consensus building, ad hoc distributed teams, negotiation, teamwork},
}