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Much research has shown that conflict is aversive and leads to increased choice deferral. In contrast, we have proposed that conflict can be beneficial. Specifically, exposure to nonconscious goal conflict can activate a mindset (a set of cognitive procedures) that facilitates the systematic processing of information without triggering the associated costs, such as negative affect and stress. I...

In this work, we address the problem of constraint conflicts while integrating the conceptual schemas of multiple autonomous databases modeled using the EntityRelationship (ER) approach. This paper presents a detailed framework to resolve three types of constraint conflicts, domain constraint conflicts, attribute constraint conflicts and relationship constraint conflicts. There are two types of...

In the distributed and collaborative development environment, where a optimistic version controlling is used, software developer inevitably have to manually resolve the conflict while merging. There are a number of tools (Git, SVN, CVS, AMOR, IBM Jazz, etc.) that support automatic merging for two non-conflicting segment of two versions of a program or a model. However, these tools have very lit...

This study examines how an organization-wide self-managed interpersonal conflict resolution system is experienced from the point of view permanent and seasonal employees. Twenty semi-structured interviews observations at a single agricultural organization were used to assess alternative dispute (ADR) system. Employee reports coded by determining if was owing processes, relationships, or tasks p...

Recent evidence confirms that emotion can trigger executive attentional control. Participants resolve conflict faster when encountering emotionally negative or positive stimuli. This effect is accompanied by an enlarged conflict negativity in event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and activation of the ventral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in fMRI. Here, we tested whether temperament (the trai...

With the business environment become more complex and dynamic, organizations have been faced with more pressures of competition. Organizations are often compelled to form strategic alliances with other organizations to survive and prosper. The inter-organizational arrangement can become favorable seedbed for inter-organization conflict. The participants in the strategic alliance often spend a s...

Safety policy sets out the rules that govern safe system interaction within a system of systems (SoS). These rules are derived from high-level policy goals informed by a hazard analysis. They are expressed in terms of behaviour that the system is allowed to exhibit and that which it is required to exhibit. Nevertheless, this process can lead to describing rules that conflict with one another, b...