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"M. Klein, conflict resolution"

M. Klein, Supporting Conflict Resolution in Cooperative Design
Systems. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6,
Nov/Dec 1991, pp. 1379-1390.



This research is important because it attempts to generalize failure
recognition and repair selection. Characteristics of the failure
situation are classified, then that class is mapped to a corresponding
class of repair strategy. The repair is then instantiated by taking
details of the failure into account.  The work is presented in the
context of a multi-agent design system.  Klein's hypothesises is that
there is a class hierarchy of types of failures/conflicts, moving from
domain independent down to domain dependent.