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  <Title>Issues Under Negotiation</Title>
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10 Conclusions and future work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> On our approach, an Issue Under Negotiation is represented as a question , e.g. what ight the user wants. In general, this means viewing problems as issues and solutions as answers. This approach has several advantages. Firstly, it provides a straightforward an intuitively sound way of capturing the idea that negotiative dialogue involves several alternative solutions to some issue or problem, and that proposals introduce such alternatives. Secondly, it distinguishes two types of negotiation (dialogue negotiation and issue negotiation) and clarifles the relation between them. Thirdly, since this account is a natural extension of the general ideas behind the GoDiS system (e.g. using issues as a basis for dialogue management), it allows the use of independently motivated theory and machinery to handle a new problem. Apart from implementing the theory described in this paper, possible future work includes applying the theory to new domains and extending it to handle more complex kinds of negotiation, possibly making use of work on collaboration and social action such as (Castelfranchi et al., 2000).</Paragraph>
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