Conflict analysis and conflict resolution play an important role in negotiation during contract-management situations in government and industry. The problem to be solved is how to model conflict situations where there is uncertainty about agreement, neutrality and disagreement among agents in a conflict situation. The solution to this problem includes modeling a conflict situation relative to ...

A methodology for resolving collision conflicts of many moving robots involving distributed cooperative behavior is proposed in this work. Robots are unaware of the goals and plans of other robots. Each robot is however assumed to be in knowledge of the current states of other robots within a given range of vision. The current state of a robot is represented by its current and target velocities...

Background: Teacher burnout and role conflict are considered as serious problems in school environments. This study was carried out in order to investigate the mediating role of time management in the correlation between role conflict and job burnout in the teachers of technical training colleges in the Iranian city of Zahedan. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 20...

Cooperative knowledge areas are a well-proved approach to support process of cooperative work and ELearning. The Paderborn Open-Source system sTeam establishes cooperative knowledge spaces so far as a single server implementation. This paper presents our architecture of distributed cooperative knowledge areas. The main conceptual idea of the sTeam system is a combination of a document managemen...

In this paper, we present results from the study of how conflict is managed in a globally distributed free software development project. Conflict arises over the use of a nonfree tool to create a GNU Enterprise (GNUe) Website graphic. The GNUe developers resolve the conflict using Internet Relay Chat (IRC), persistent relay chats, threaded email discussions, and community digests. We characteri...