Conflicting Agents Conflict Management in Multi-Agent Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tessier, Catherine. (Editor), Chaudron, Laurent. (Editor), M©ơller, Heinz-J©ơrgen. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, And Simulated Organizations, International Book Series, 1
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Computer Science, general.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• AgentsỚ" Conflicts: New Issues
• Conflicts and Agents: Essentials
• Conflicts within and for Collaboration
• Their Problems are My Problems
• Conflicts in Social Theory and Multi-agent Systems
• Conflicts of Operational Agents
• Conflicts in Agent Teams
• Conflict-based Behaviour Emergence in Robot Teams
• Conflicts in Collective Robotics
• Application Centered AgentsỚ" Conflicts
• Strategic Use of Conflicts in Tutoring Systems
• Conflict Handling in Collaborative Search
• Conflict as a Heuristic in the Development of an Interaction Mechanics.