This paper focusses on how conflicts that arise during a design process and the management of conflicts can be modelled. A number of possible conflict types are distinguished and it is described how each of them can be detected during the design process, using an explicit meta-representation. Furthermore, it is shown how these conflict types can be analyzed and managed by means of strategic met...

This paper presents an approach to Search Based Software Project Management based on Cooperative Co-evolution. Our approach aims to optimize both developers’ team staffing and work package scheduling through cooperative co-evolution to achieve early overall completion time. To evaluate our approach, we conducted an empirical study, using data from four real-world software projects. Results indi...

We address the issue of multi-aircraft cooperative strategic trajectory planning in free-route airspace (FRA) this study, taking into consideration impact time-varying and altitude-varying wind forecast uncertainty. A bi-level model was established response to properties wind. The upper level focused on minimizing flight time, while lower aimed reduce potential conflicts. Meanwhile, a heuristic...

1. Abstract Multiagent systems (MAS) have been used to solve classes of problems for which one has limited expertise to propose a feasible solution. Usually, these problems are intrinsically distributed, very complex and/or involve extensive computations. We are particularly interested in multiagents systems supporting Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), more specifically groupware with...

Multi-attribute (Multi-issue) negotiation protocols have been studied widely, and represent an important challenge in the multiagent systems community (Lai et al., 2004). Therefore, a lot of automated negotiation models and protocols have been developed, and manifold negotiation challenges have been already addressed. Most research in automated negotiation to date has focused on the competitive...

Complex modern-day artifacts are designed cooperatively by groups of experts, each with their own areas of expertise. The interaction of such experts inevitably involves conflict. This paper presents an implemented computational model, based on studies of human cooperative design, for supporting the resolution of such conflicts. This model is based centrally on the insights that general conflic...

In the management of critical care units, leadership and conflict management are vital areas for the successful performance of the unit. In this article a practical approach to define competencies for leadership and principles and practices of conflict management are offered. This article is, by lack of relevant intensive care unit (ICU) literature, not evidence based, but it is the result of p...

Conflict analysis has been used as an important tool in economic, business, governmental and political dispute, games, management negotiations, military operations and etc. There are many mathematical formal models have been proposed to handle conflict situations and one of the most popular is rough set theory. With the ability to handle vagueness from the conflict data set, rough set theory ha...

The Nile River Basin is the source of life Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Upstream countries, principally as water for agriculture hydropower. resource focus much contested development between downstream upstream countries. In recent years, largely due to climate change rapid population growth, there has been an increasing level conflict related scarcity consequent aggravation food insecurity. Add...

The responsibility for managing and conserving freshwater ecosystems is typically shared by multiple organizations with sometimes conflicting policy mandates. However, scorecard-based approaches for measuring management effectiveness in natural resource management are usually confined to single organizations. This paper describes a social learning approach which acknowledges cooperation as an e...