After fragmentation: Norm collisions, interface conflicts, and conflict management

Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations

Organisation-oriented approaches to the formation of multi-agent systems use roles and norms to describe an agent’s social position within an artificial society or Virtual Organisation. Norms are descriptive information for a role – they determine the obligations and social constraints for an agent’s actions. A legal instrument for establishing such norms are contracts signed by agents when the...

Resolving Fragmentation Conflicts in Schema Integration

Research on schema integration leads to the identification of many different conflict types. Some of them received much attention and many papers proposed solutions for their resolution. However, literature usually focuses on traditional problems, whilst new kinds of schema discrepancies, due to the object orientation or the generalization concept, are not really treated. Moreover, most of the ...

Conflict and Conflict Management

Conflict cannot be avoided since it is an inevitable aspect of work teams. Conflict may be defined as a struggle or contest between people with opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or goals. Conflict on teams is inevitable; however, the results of conflict are not predetermined. Conflict might escalate and lead to nonproductive results, or conflict can be beneficially resolved and lead to qu...

Frozen Conflicts, Minority Self-Governance, Asymmetrical Autonomies – In search of a framework for conflict management and conflict resolution

Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments

Norms, that is, obligations, permissions and prohibitions, are a useful abstraction to specify and regulate the actions of self-interested software agents in open, heterogeneous systems. Any realistic account of norms must address their dynamic nature: the norms associated to agents will change as agents act (and interact) – prohibitions can be lifted, obligations can be fulfilled and permissio...