Projects:
Interesting Trails

I engineered an adaptation of the networked tile-trading application “Colored Trails” in order to study outcomes of interest-based computer mediated negotiation compared to those of position-based negotiation. I added a layer permitting revelation of goals in the interest-based negotiation protocol, as well as projection of paths possible through hypothetical trades. I had human experiment subjects play tile trade scenarios with each other through collaborators at Harvard University, analyzed the data for outcome differences under goal solicitation/revelation protocols, and modeled likelihood of goal revelation upon solicitation.

Core Java (experiment trading tool extension); Weka (data modeling)

British University in Dubai (in association with the University of Edinburgh, UK), 2008-2009

In partnership with a team at Harvard University

Publications:

• Dsouza, S., Gal, Y. K., Pasquier, P., Abdallah, S., & Rahwan, I. (2013). Reasoning about Goal Revelation in Human Negotiation. In IEEE Intelligent Systems (Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 74–80). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/mis.2011.93

• Abdallah, S., D'Souza, S., Gal, Y., Pasquier, P., & Rahwan, I. (2009). The Effects of Goal Revelation on Computer-Mediated Negotiation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 31. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7g54k0vt

BUiD Master of Science in Informatics thesis: Dsouza, S. (2009) Empirical Studies in Computer-Mediated Interest-Based Negotiations. http://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/53