Synopses & Reviews
The aim of this book is to bring together approaches from different subfields of Artificial Intelligence as well as adjoint disciplines in order to characterize a "computational model" of conflicts. The different views on computational conflicts are motivated as follows: Conflicts can occur in organizations among human agents, as well as in computational systems such as knowledge-based systems, or multi-agent systems. They can appear during problem solving or during communication. Their nature or processing can also be specific for some tasks (such as concurrent engineering and design). They can be formalized and techniques can be offered for detecting, managing or avoiding them.
Synopsis
The aim of this book is to bring together approaches from different subfields of Artificial Intelligence as well as adjoint disciplines in order to characterize a "computational model" of conflicts. The different views on computational conflicts are motivated as follows: Conflicts can occur in organizations among human agents, as well as in computational systems such as knowledge-based systems, or multi-agent systems. They can appear during problem solving or during communication. Their nature or processing can also be specific for some tasks (such as concurrent engineering and design). They can be formalized and techniques can be offered for detecting, managing or avoiding them.
Synopsis
This book brings together approaches from different subfields of artificial intelligence as well as adjoint disciplines in order to characterize a "computational model" of conflicts.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- On Conflicts in General and their Use in Particular.- Formal Conflict Models and their Use in Agent Communication Conflict Ontology.- Modeling Conflict Resolution Dialogs.- Managing Conflicts in Reflective Agents.- Difference: A Key to Enrich Knowledge - Concepts and Models.- Detecting Temporal Agent Conflicts.- Conflicts in Concurrent Engineering.- Modeling Conflicts Between Agents in a Design Context.- Conflict Management as Part of an Integrated Exception Handling Approach.- From Conflicts in Distributed Assessment Situations.- The Iterated Lift Dilemma: How to Establish Meta-Coordination with your Opponent.- Literature.