Cognitive control can be triggered in reaction to previous conflict, as suggested by the finding of sequential effects in conflict tasks. Can control also be triggered proactively by presenting cues predicting conflict ("proactive control")? We exploited the high temporal resolution of ERPs and controlled for sequential effects to ask whether proactive control based on anticipating conflict mod...

A main problem of data integration is the treatment of conflicts caused by different modeling of real-world entities, different data models or simply by different representations of one and the same object. During the integration phase these conflicts have to be identified and resolved as part of the mapping between local and global schemata. Therefore, conflict resolution affects the definitio...

Data fusion is a hot topic in data integration which at least includes the two stages: entity resolution and data conflict resolution. However, the existing fusion process is transparent and the fusion stages are isolated. So in this paper, we proposed a traceable data fusion mechanism based on data provenance which can trace the data sources of fusion results and the evolutionary process. The ...

Shared online databases, such as Google Fusion Tables or Quickbase, allow non-programmer community members to collaboratively maintain and browse data. While community members may believe in conflicting facts (due to conflicting sources, measurements or opinions), current online databases do not yet offer support for the management of data conflicts. Ricolla is a novel online database that trea...

Conflicts exist in multi-agent systems for a number of reasons: agents have different interests and desires; agents hold different beliefs; agents make different assumptions. To resolve conflicts, agents need to better convey information to each other and facilitate fair negotiations yielding jointly agreeable outcomes. We present a two-agent, dialogical conflict resolution scheme developed wit...

Our focus in this work is to provide mechanisms to enable the fuzzy set based approximate reasoning (AR) system to deal with con ̄icts in knowledge. The basic concepts of the theory of AR are introduced. The issue of con ̄ict is raised and some of its bizarre e€ects are described. We then turn to some modi®cations of the basic AR mechanisms to ameliorate these e€ects. Two approaches strong and we...

Optimistic version control systems enable globally distributed teams of developers to work together asynchronously. Every developer works on a local copy and consequently, no developer is ever detracted from working by waiting for a resource. The price for this flexibility is payed at the moment when conflicting modifications must be integrated into one consolidated version. In this paper, we d...