Prior research on negotiation support systems (NSS) has paid limited attention to the information content in the observed bid sequences of negotiators. Cognitive characteristics of individual negotiators and their impacts on negotiation performance have also received limited attention. In this...

Fraud, waste and abuse are significant problems in major industries such as healthcare and manufacturing, particularly when third party payers such as Medicare are involved. Current practices for auditing fraudulent activity are based on scoring models used to select practitioners or claims that...