Cooperative object manipulation control of rigid-flexible multi-body systems in space is studied in this paper. During such tasks, flexible members like solar panels may get vibrated that in turn may lead to some oscillatory disturbing forces on other subsystems, and consequently produces error in the motion of the end-effectors of the cooperative manipulating arms. Therefore, to design and dev...

Policy based management plays an important role in the research community and in the industry. Policies can be in conflict to each other due to specification of policies by several persons or when targeting divergent goals. Existing approaches for policy detection and resolution are limited: they are only applicable for distinct policy languages. They are only able to detect certain conflict ty...

Group-based learning creates an environment in which students can practice, gain, and improve soft skills such as leadership, communication, social, and conflict resolution skills. However, simply placing students in groups and creating group-based assessment tasks will not necessarily result in students developing and practicing these skills. Instead, specific approaches, such as cooperative l...

Recent research has shown that interstate rival adversaries account for most interstate conflict, and that militarized relations between rivals become more conflictual as the adversaries accumulate longer histories of conflict. The existing research on rivalry, though, has focused almost exclusively on militarized relations between rivals; little is known about non-militarized or cooperative re...

Games can provide an effective and replicable space in which stakeholders learn skills necessary for deliberative and pluralist policymaking. These skills are especially important for “nexus” policy issues that are typically characterised by multiple, competing problem frames involving overlapping networks of stakeholders. In this position paper, we describe three serious games that serve as a ...

This paper examines if, when, and how states act to manage militarized disputes. I argue that the relationship between the third party and disputants, the management history, and the characteristics of the conflict help us understand when management occurs and the management techniques employed. I find substantial evidence that biased third parties are quick to offer management services and to ...

Enforcement of global cooperation urges the rapid growth of cooperative work. As a typical application of it, cooperative editing is widely used in many fields gradually, especially in knowledge intensive application. Workflow is a kind of automation technology by predefined process rules and tasks. It can bring us clarity in process control and management, which are two important facets in coo...

We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient collective action and on a peaceful distribution of the returns of collective action. JEL Classificatio...