This paper deals with a well known problem in AI planning: detecting and resolving conflicts in nonlinear plans. We sketch a theory of restricted conflict detection and resolution that subsumes conflict handling in classical nonlinear planners. By relaxing the restrictions, we develop a more general concept of conflicts suggesting practical and theoretical limitations of conflict handling in no...

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...

In the transferable belief model, a model for the quantified representation of beliefs, some masses can be allocated to the empty set. It reflects the conflict between the sources of information. This quantified conflict can be used in order to solve the problem of data association in a multitarget detection problem. We present and illustrate the procedure by studying an example based on the de...