Conflicting Agents Conflict Management in Multi-Agent Systems
Conflicts between agents acting in a multi-agent environment arise for different reasons, involve different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending on the kind of agents and on the domain where they are considered. Agents may have confli
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MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS International Book Series
Series Editor: Gerhard Weiss Technische Universität München
Editorial Board: Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Yves Demazeau, CNRS Laboratoire LEIBNIZ, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC, USA Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, Germany (Series Editor) Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
CONFLICTING AGENTS Conflict Management in Multi-Agent Systems Edited by
Catherine Tessier Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France
Laurent Chaudron Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France Heinz-Jürgen Müller Deutsche Telekom, Darmstadt, Germany
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Contents
Preface Contributing Authors 1 Agents’ conflicts: new issues Catherine Tessier Heinz-Jürgen Müller Humbert Fiorino Laurent Chaudron 1. Introduction 2. About conflicts in general Two classes of conflicts 3. 4. Towards a unified definition of conflict? 5. Conflict handling 6. Overview of the book
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Part I Conflicts and agents: essentials 2 Conflicts within and for collaboration Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone 1. Introduction A plan-based theory of delegation/adoption 2. Types and levels of delegation and related conflicts 3. 4. Levels of control and relative conflicts 5. Adoption and conflict 6. Delegation roles and conflicts Tutorial and paternalistic conflicts 7. Functional violations of norms and commitments 8. 9. Conclusions
3 Their problems are my problems Markus Hannebauer 1. Introduction 2. Internal Conflicts 3. External Conflicts
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4. Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration Related Work 5. Conclusions 6. Appendix 4 Conflicts in social theory and MAS Thomas Malsch Gerhard Weiss 1. Introduction Different reasons for studying conflicts 2. Conflicts in the sociology of autopoietic social systems 3. Conflict in pragmatist sociology 4. Conflict and social change 5. Conclusion 6.
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Part II Conflicts of operational agents 5 Conflicts in agent teams Hyuckchul Jung and Milind Tambe 1. Introduction Domains and motivations 2. Team
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