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In this paper the problems of cooperative group design and its intelligent multi-agent computer-supported realization are considered. The subject of this paper is conflict resolution in multi-agent systems, where the agents might be human or computer. The principal roles of design conflict and conflict resolution are emphasized, and computational models of design conflict and conflict resolution are described. We propose a cooperative design system (CDS) architecture, as well as possible strategies for design, mechanisms for conflict detection, strategies for conflict resolution, and a heuristic scheme for choosing the most effective conflict resolution strategy. We also describe an object-oriented implementation of CDS using Smalltalk/V 286.
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Kotenko, I.V. (1994). Conflict resolution in computer-supported cooperative design. In: Blumenthal, B., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58648-2_34
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