Group Negotiation Logic — Real-Time Decision Engine for Shared Travel

Overview: Group Negotiation Logic is NAVORA’s distributed decision-making framework designed to manage real-time consensus and conflict resolution within moving groups. It enables spontaneous, coordinated travel decisions—such as rerouting, resting, splitting, or merging—without requiring direct communication. The system is powered by lightweight voting, AI arbitration, and motion-aware override protocols, ensuring smooth coordination even in high-stress or disconnected environments.

This module is foundational to NAVORA CONNECT and NAVORA CORE OS and is universally applied across modes (marine, trail, snow, vehicle).

Voting System for Group Travel Decisions

NAVORA allows:

• Quick tap votes on route, POI, delay, and regroup options

• Contextual prompts triggered by situation (e.g., “Shall we stop at this fuel dock?”)

• Anonymous or ID-attributed voting, depending on user setting

Voting outcomes:

• Ranked by speed and response ratio

• Weighted optionally by user role (e.g., captain, parent, leader)

• Displayed live to participants with auto-fallback if quorum not met

Supports real-time application:

• Hiking teams choosing between forks

• Road convoy selecting new lunch stop

• Ski group coordinating based on terrain difficulty

AI Tie-Breaking or Moderator System

NAVORA AI can:

• Break ties based on historical preferences, safety weight, or prior majority direction

• Suggest delay for re-vote if context is unclear

• Assign temporary moderator based on:

  • Longest trip duration

  • Seniority (e.g., original trip creator)

  • Risk zone proximity (e.g., furthest from danger takes lead)

Fallback rule hierarchy:

1. Preassigned leader wins tie

2. AI preference scoring

3. Randomized time-decayed override (avoid deadlock)

Movement-Based Override Rules

When a group fails to respond or diverges organically, NAVORA applies movement-based logic to restructure:

• Majority motion override: If 60% of users begin deviating from chosen route, new path is proposed

• Proximity override: If subgroup is consistently out of sync, it is auto-split

• Inertia override: If decision timeout hits and most users are moving in sync, that path becomes default

This ensures:

• No need for endless voting in moving or emergency situations

• Self-healing coordination without user input

• Minimal confusion or misalignment during travel

Patent Advantage: NAVORA’s Group Negotiation Logic introduces:

• Movement-aware, real-time consensus generation

• AI fallback hierarchy based on behavioral safety and contextual data

• Dynamic, proximity-informed group splitting and majority override rules

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This decision engine makes NAVORA the only navigation platform that allows groups to flow like a single organism—deliberating and adapting without breaking formation.