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Dominating attitudes in the graph model for conflict resolution

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A formal methodology for analyzing the importance of weighing a decision maker℉s attitudes in a conflict is introduced and applied to the problem of negotiating a fair transfer of a brownfield property. A decision maker℉s attitudes are expressed in his consideration of his own preferences, as well as those of his opponents. Dominating attitudes are used to suggest that in a circumstance in which a decision maker takes into account multiple perspectives due to his attitudes, he may favor one perspective more heavily. The analysis of a brownfield acquisition conflict illustrates the types of insights that this methodology reveals.

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Sean Bernath Walker is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bernath Walker completed his Master℉s and PhD degrees in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and his BASc degree in chemical engineering in 2006 from Waterloo. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Conflict Analysis Group, headed by Professor Keith W. Hipel. During this time, Dr. Bernath Walker has written numerous journal articles in engineering decision making which were published in highly respected international journals and he has presented papers at important international conferences. His research interests in multiple participant decision making include attitude analysis, the strategic impacts of irrational actions on conflict, brownfield redevelopment and environmental systems management.

Keith W. Hipel is university professor of Systems Design Engineering and Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, President-Elect of the Academy of Science (Royal Society of Canada (RSC)), and Chair of the Board of Governors at Renison University College. Dr. Hipel received his BASc in Civil Engineering (1970), MASc in Systems Design (1972), and the PhD in Civil Engineering (1975) from Waterloo. His interdisciplinary research interests are the development and application of conflict resolution, multiple objective decision making and time series analysis techniques from a systems system-of-systems engineering perspective. Dr. Hipel has Fellow designations from IEEE, RSC, International Council on Systems Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineering Institute of Canada, and American Water Resources Association. He holds the JSPS Eminent Scientist Award (Japan), Sir John William Dawson Medal (RSC), Norbert Wiener Award (IEEE), and Docteur Honoris Causa (France).

Takehiro Inohara received his B.S. (Mathematics, 1992), M.S. (Systems Science, 1994) and PhD (Systems Science, 1997), all from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Tokyo, Japan. He is currently the Chair and a professor in Department of Value and Decision Science (VALDES), Tokyo Tech. His research interests are in the fields of conflict resolution, decision making, consensus building, and social network theory. He is a reviewer of Mathematical Reviews, and the leader of the International Program on Consensus Building (IPCOB) at Tokyo Tech. In 2003, Professor Inohara received the “Tokyo Tech Award for Challenging Research” from Tokyo Tech, and in 2005, “The Young Scientist℉s Prize” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan.

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Walker, S.B., Hipel, K.W. & Inohara, T. Dominating attitudes in the graph model for conflict resolution. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 21, 316–336 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-012-5198-x

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