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This paper presents a game intended to train teams that have both individual and teams goals to negotiate collaboratively in order to reach the team goal in the best way possible. We consider self-managing teams, i.e., teams that do not have a hierarchical structure. The importance of the team goal in comparison to their individual goals is touched upon, as are various conflicts that can occur during such a negotiation. The game, which is implemented in the Blocks World 4 Teams environment, gives a team a specific scenario and allows them to negotiate a plan of action. This plan of action is then performed by agents, after which the team members will be debriefed on their performance.
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van Riemsdijk, M.B., Jonker, C.M., Rens, T., Wang, Z. (2012). Negotiation Game for Improving Decision Making in Self-managing Teams. In: Ding, W., Jiang, H., Ali, M., Li, M. (eds) Modern Advances in Intelligent Systems and Tools. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30732-4_8
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