VoteFair Negotiation Tool now available as open-source software
The software that runs the www.NegotiationTool.com website is now
open-source available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/cpsolver/VoteFair-Negotiation-Tool
To see how this negotiation tool works, see the website at:
www.NegotiationTool.com
Why am I doing this? I've realized that the current progress from
single-mark ballots to 1-2-3 ballots and pairwise counting is so
extremely -- glacially -- slow that I figure I'll be dead before any
legislature, or parliament, or other decision-making organization
becomes interested in adopting a decision-making process that:
- Allows a parliament to operate without forming a ruling coalition (as
conveyed by one of the demos). - Produces extremely fair decisions.
- Requires participants to think in new, non-obstructionistic, ways.
- Automates some of the work that professional negotiators and
arbitrators do. - Reduces lawsuits (and therefore takes work away from lawyers/solicitors).
- Requires calculations that are far more complex than the ones used to
elect representatives.
For convenience, the beginning of the README file appears below.
The subroutine named "sub_sort_proposals_overall.pl" contains the core
calculation code.
Questions? Please ask.
Richard Fobes
Author of "Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections"
----- Beginning of README file -----
This software negotiation tool can be used to negotiate fair outcomes
for real-life situations such as:
* insurance settlements
* buyer-seller bargaining
* terms of employment
* contractor-homeowner disputes
* consultant-client contracts
* investment contracts
* divorce settlements
* marriage counseling agreements
* inheritance distributions
* landlord-tenant contracts
Notice that it handles both friendly and hostile situations.
It's designed to handle dozens of participants, yet it also can
accommodate just two people.
Using this negotiation tool primarily consists of adding proposals and
ranking those proposals. Whenever you request seeing the latest
suggested resolution, the latest results are immediately calculated.
The calculation method is based on VoteFair ranking, which is a voting
method explained at VoteFair.org and in the book "Ending The Hidden
Unfairness In U.S. Elections."