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...

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Other Authors:	Tessier, Cathérine (Editor), Chaudron, Laurent (Editor), Müller, Heinz-Jürgen (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Springer US 2002
Edition:	1st ed. 2002
Series:	Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations 1
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computer Communication Networks Computer Science, general Artificial intelligence Computer communication systems Computer science Koordination Mehragentensystem
Online Access:	UBY01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 335 p)
ISBN:	9780306469855
DOI:	10.1007/b116057