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4 IJODR 66 (2017)
Brexit 2.0 Negotiation Simulation with Smartsettle Infinity

handle is hein.journals/ijodr4 and id is 144 raw text is: BREXIT 2.0 Negotiation Simulation with Smartsettle InfinityTM Peter Holt, Graham Ross, Ernest Thiessen & Diana Wallis* 1. Summary Guided by trained facilitators, the United Kingdom, the European Union Member States (EUMS) and the EU Parliament collaborated in resolving seven key BREXIT issues in a simulated negotiation with the help of a sophisticated system called Smartsettle Infinity. A model of the problem was built with preferences of the parties that were deduced from public information on the Internet. The final phase of the negotiation was played out in fast-forward at the 2018 Liverpool ODR Conference, where attendees were invited to engage from the point of view of the EUMS, while the other two parties were played in the background by intel- ligent robots. Optimistic proposals were exchanged at the beginning of a process called Multivariate Visual Blind Bidding, which requires negotiating parties to create proposals as complete packages, so that all issues can be negotiated simultane- ously. Well-represented confidential preferences analyzed by Smartsettle's neu- tral site produced semi-optimal suggestions for consideration. Overlapping secret acceptances quickly produced a baseline agreement. Further examination uncov- ered remaining hidden value in order to generate an Improvement that was worth even more to each party. 2. Smartsettle Infinity Challenged to Resolve BREXIT Invited by the organizers of the ODR conference at Liverpool's recent Interna- tional Business Conference to demonstrate Smartsettle Infinity's ability to encourage collaboration and solve complex disputes, the Smartsettle team just couldn't resist BREXIT. Their mission was to resolve BREXIT during a one-hour conference session. To accomplish this admittedly tall order, a new hypothetical scenario was created called BREXIT 2.0, which was simplified to a small number of key issues. The team imagined three parties that would be involved in the negotiation, the United Kingdom, the EU Parliament and the EUMS. The EU was split into two parties to reflect the fact that not all members agreed wholly with Peter Holt is Chief Product Development Officer at iCan Systems Inc. Graham Ross runs a distance training course on ODR for mediators and arbitrators at www.odrtraining.com and he is a member of the Civil Justice Council ODR Advisory Group. Ernest Thiessen is President of iCan Systems Inc of British Columbia, developers of the Smartsettle eNegotiation and visual blind bidding system. Diana Wallis is Former Vice-President of the European Parliament, past President of the European Law Institute and former Director of the International Mediation Institute. International Journal on Online Dispute Resolution 2017 (4) 2

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