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<article-title>The LOGIC Negotiation Model</article-title>
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<author><a href="mailto:sierra@iiia.csic.es"><name>Carles Sierra</name></a></author>
<aff>Institut d'Investigacio en Intel.ligencia Artificial <br/>Spanish Scientific Research  Council, UAB 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:debenham@it.uts.edu.au"><name>John Debenham</name></a></author>
<aff>Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney NSW, Australia</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position
along five dimensions: Legitimacy, Options, Goals, Independence,
and Commitment, (LOGIC). We introduce a negotiation
model based on these dimensions and on two primitive
concepts: <italic>intimacy</italic> (degree of closeness) and <italic>balance</italic> (degree
of fairness). The <italic>intimacy</italic> is a pair of matrices that evaluate
both an agent's contribution to the relationship and
its opponent's contribution each from an information view
and from a utilitarian view across the five LOGIC dimensions.
The <italic>balance</italic> is the difference between these matrices.
A <italic>relationship strategy</italic> maintains a <italic>target intimacy</italic> for
each relationship that an agent would like the relationship to
move towards in future. The <italic>negotiation strategy</italic> maintains
a set of Options that are in-line with the current intimacy
level, and then <italic>tactics</italic> wrap the Options in argumentation
with the aim of attaining a successful deal <italic>and</italic> manipulating
the successive negotiation balances towards the target
intimacy.</p>
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