Abstract Conflict resolution is essential to obtain cooperation in many scenarios such as politics and business, well our day life. The importance of conflict has driven research fields like anthropology, social science, psychology, mathematics, biology and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Computer science intelligence have, turn, been inspired by theories techniques from these discipli...

We consider the Conflict Resolution Problem in the context of a multiple-access system in which several stations can transmit their messages simultaneously to the channel. We assume that there are n stations and that at most k, k ≤ n, stations are active at the same time, i.e, are willing to transmit a message over the channel. If in a certain instant at most d, d ≤ k, active stations transmit ...