On combining partial and incompatible information in e-negotiation and e-arbitration

The complexity of the problems to be addressed in an e-democracy framework and the variety of involved stakeholders, with different backgrounds, views and access to information sources, lead to consider the case in which e-negotiation should be performed among subjects who have partial, sometimes incompatible, information and can hardly be gathered to discuss issues altogether, under the supervision of a facilitator. We propose a statistical method which addresses the issue of partial and incompatible information, merging it and then using it to get a final decision, possibly in an automatic way, through the processes of e-negotiation and e-arbitration.