Safety authority rebuts conflict claim

European Food Safety Authority

European Food Safety Authority

Conflict Management with an Authority/Deniability Model

When a reasoning system encounters a contradiction like p&q=>false, it may try to eliminate it by retracting some belief that supports either p or q. This paper addresses the issue of how to determine which of the possible supporting beliefs to retract. The problem is studied in the context of a heterogenous distributed environment in which we can not make assumptions about how agents derive th...

STUK-- Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority

This work was undertaken in order to study the utilisation of decision analysis interviews and of the RODOS system when planning protective actions in the case of a nuclear accident. Six decision analysis interview meetings were organised. Interviewees were competent national safety authorities and technical level decision-makers, i.e., those who are responsible for drawing up advice or making ...

Deference to Authority as a Basis for Managing Ideological Conflict