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Infinity Rules

 

Smartsettle Infinity Rules

Cases and Preferences

Many different cases are available to the competitors depending on interests and skill level. The negotiation will be mostly concerned about which decisions to make about pre-defined issues. There will be little or no negotiating about the actual wording of the agreement.

Whenever we have a class or group from the same area, to enhance their learning experience, we make sure that they all play on the same side. This makes it possible for learners to help each other out and for coaches to freely discuss the competition with them and to give them unbiased assistance. We encourage participants to compete individually so that everyone has an opportunity to have hands-on experience.

Access to the confidential information for the parties will be made available upon login to the participants. The confidential information will identify two extreme packages (representing imaginary outcomes or previous proposals from the parties). Each player’s task is to agree with his or her opponent on a package within the given bargaining ranges.

Some aspects of the negotiations may be described qualitatively requiring interactions between the negotiators to agree on an exact description. The confidential information will describe your preferences. You must negotiate according to those prescribed preferences. There will be limited opportunity to change the basic structure of the case set by the organizers.

 

Communication between Players

Competitors are expected to communicate with their counterpart strictly within Smartsettle. As soon as is possible after the competition begins, each player should enter into the Joint Session area and post a message like this:

I am ________ (User Name) representing _________ (your role). I am ready to negotiate.

Be sure that email notification is turned on and that you have specified your email address there. If you have a mobile phone that is compatible with Short Message Service (SMS), you may wish to use that address for notification.

 

Scoring

Infinity negotiations must complete within three weeks. Each player must negotiate according to the confidential information provided to his/her side. Evaluators will look at the final results to ensure that a valid agreement has been reached. Evaluators will also look at preference representations and compare with specifications in their confidential information. There will also be a questionnaire that each competitor must complete at the end of the negotiation. Competitors will be evaluated on the basis of a secret formula determined in advance by the tournament organizers.

High scores will be achieved by negotiators:

• that represent their preferences consistent with provided information,
• that achieve a high raw score, and
• if their opponent also does well.