Conflicting Agents: Conflict Management in Multi-Agent Systems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475783803)

Conflicts between agents acting in a multi-agent environment arise for different reasons, involve different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending on the kind of agents and on the domain where they are considered. Agents may have conflicting beliefs, conflicting goals, or may have to share limited resources. Consequently, conflicts may be expressed as mere differences, or as contradictions, or even as social conflicts. They may be avoided, solved, kept, or even created deliberately.
Conflicting Agents studies conflicts in the context of multi-agent systems, i.e. artificial societies modeled on the basis of autonomous, interacting agents. This book addresses questions about types of conflicts, conflict definitions and the use of conflicts as trigger functions for activities in multi-agent systems. The book is also dedicated to questions of conflict management, resolution and avoidance, i.e. the question of how agents cope with conflicts and conflicting situations.

Author: Cathérine Tessier
ISBN-10: 1475783809
ISBN-13: 9781475783803
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2013
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.74d