Conflicting Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Agents’ Conflicts: New Issues

   • Catherine Tessier, Heinz-Jürgen Müller, Humbert Fiorino, Laurent Chaudron

   Pages 1-30

3. Conflicts and Agents: Essentials

   1. Conflicts within and for Collaboration

      • Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone

      Pages 33-61

   2. Their Problems are My Problems

      • Markus Hannebauer

      Pages 63-109

   3. Conflicts in Social Theory and Multi-agent Systems

      • Thomas Malsch, Gerhard Weiss

      Pages 111-149

4. Conflicts of Operational Agents

   1. Conflicts in Agent Teams

      • Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe

      Pages 153-167

   2. Conflict-based Behaviour Emergence in Robot Teams

      • Jacques Penders

      Pages 169-202

   3. Conflicts in Collective Robotics

      • Fabrice Chantemargue

      Pages 203-220

5. Application Centered Agents’ Conflicts

   1. Strategic Use of Conflicts in Tutoring Systems

      • Esma Aïmeur

      Pages 223-250

   2. Conflict Handling in Collaborative Search

      • Jörg Denzinger

      Pages 251-278

   3. Conflict as a Heuristic in the Development of an Interaction Mechanics

      • William F. Lawless, T. Castelão, C. P. Abubucker

      Pages 279-302

6. Back Matter

   Pages 303-335

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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 conflicting beliefs, conflicting goals, or may have to share limited resources. Consequently, conflicts may be expressed as mere differences, or as contradictions, or even as social conflicts. They may be avoided, solved, kept, or even created deliberately.
Conflicting Agents studies conflicts in the context of multi-agent systems, i.e. artificial societies modeled on the basis of autonomous, interacting agents. This book addresses questions about types of conflicts, conflict definitions and the use of conflicts as trigger functions for activities in multi-agent systems. The book is also dedicated to questions of conflict management, resolution and avoidance, i.e. the question of how agents cope with conflicts and conflicting situations.

• agents
• autonom
• conflict
• conflict management
• management
• mechanics
• multi-agent system
• multi-agent systems
• robot
• robotics

`...represents a useful reference work on some of the latest approaches to conflict in MAS, in which most working in the field will be likely to find much of interest.'
JASSS, 6/1 (2003)

• Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France

  Catherine Tessier, Laurent Chaudron

• Deutsche Telekom, Darmstadt, Germany

  Heinz-Jürgen Müller

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