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How Information Technology Can Support Family Law and Mediation

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In Australia, before a divorcing couple can have their case heard by the Family Court, they must undertake mediation. Thus it is useful to develop information technology tools to support negotiation and mediation in family law. Most negotiation support systems focus upon integrative bargaining. In doing so, they tend to ignore issues of fairness. In Australian Family Law, the interests of the children, as opposed to those of their parents/guardians, are paramount. We investigate the use of providing BATNAs and integrative bargaining in providing family mediation decision support. The discussion is highlighted with examples taken from the domain of Australian Family Law.

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  1. School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Emilia Bellucci, Deborah Macfarlane & John Zeleznikow

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 60-967, Poznań, Poland

    Krzysztof Węcel

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Bellucci, E., Macfarlane, D., Zeleznikow, J. (2010). How Information Technology Can Support Family Law and Mediation. In: Abramowicz, W., Tolksdorf, R., Węcel, K. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15402-7_31

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