Our focus in this work is to provide mechanisms to enable the fuzzy set based approximate reasoning (AR) system to deal with con ̄icts in knowledge. The basic concepts of the theory of AR are introduced. The issue of con ̄ict is raised and some of its bizarre e€ects are described. We then turn to some modi®cations of the basic AR mechanisms to ameliorate these e€ects. Two approaches strong and we...

Optimistic version control systems enable globally distributed teams of developers to work together asynchronously. Every developer works on a local copy and consequently, no developer is ever detracted from working by waiting for a resource. The price for this flexibility is payed at the moment when conflicting modifications must be integrated into one consolidated version. In this paper, we d...

This study was designed to describe the conflict resolution practices used in Mexican American adolescents' friendships, to explore the role of cultural orientations and values and gender-typed personality qualities in conflict resolution use, and to assess the connections between conflict resolution and friendship quality. Participants were 246 Mexican American adolescents (M = 12.77 years of ...

The primary goal of air traffic control (ATC) is safety of the flights under the controller's responsibility (Mensen 1989, pp. 3-25; Eurocontrol 1999). Such safety requires reliable detection and effective resolution of impending intersections of aircraft trajectories, which are termed ‘conflicts’ if aircraft do not remain separated for at least 5 nautical miles laterally (Mensen 1989) and for ...

Regions within the frontal and parietal cortex have been implicated as important neural correlates for cognitive control during conflict resolution. Despite the extensive reciprocal connectivity between the cerebellum and these putatively critical cortical areas, a role for the cerebellum in conflict resolution has never been identified. We used a task-switching paradigm that separates processe...

In AORE, a conflict occurs when two or more crosscutting concerns i.e aspects having the same priority contribute negatively to each other, need to be composed in the same match point. Conflict resolution is a process that establishes a critical trade-off among such kind of aspects. So, the conflict resolution process is a compulsory process and need to achieve it. Over the last few years, seve...

Differences in attachment styles and conflict resolution skills may exist for those who choose to initiate or who receive relationship dissolution mediated by technology. 304 college students (F = 178, M = 126) completed an online questionnaire about their demographics, relationship status, attachment styles, and conflict resolution skills. Text messaging was the most common form of technology ...

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org Symbiosis, an interdependent relationship between two species, is an important driver of evolutionary novelty and ecological diversity. Microbial symbionts in particular have been major evolutionary catalysts throughout the 4 billion years of life on earth and have largely shaped the evolution of complex organisms. Endosymbiosis is a specifi c type...

Effective and efficient requirements negotiation is a key to the success of software development efforts. For large projects, this can be especially difficult to do effectively and efficiently when combining input from non-co-located experts and reaching consensus among the different stakeholders (e.g., end-users, developers, software assurance, customers) as well as among the different aspects...

This paper addresses some issues involved in applying the eventcondition-action (ECA) rule paradigm of active databases to policies—collections of general principles specifying the desired behavior of a system. We use a declarative policy description language PDL, in which policies are formulated as sets of ECA rules. The main contribution of the paper is a framework for detecting action confli...