List of Figures

• The space of all design problems
• Wine glass parameters
• Hierarchy of conflicts and strategies
• Components of agents
• Operation of conflict resolution component
• The components making up a SiFA
• The space of agents
• Communication and data flow
• The parameter block
• Two estimate evaluation critics
• The knowledge contained in a SiFA
• The SiFA conflict hierarchy
• Criticizing an entity
• Criticizing a value/estimate
• Criticizing an evaluation
• Criticizing a critique/praise
• Incompatible suggestions for the same value/estimate entity
• Incompatible suggestions for different value entities
• Incompatible suggestions for an evaluation
• Incompatible suggestions for the same critique/praise entity
• Incompatible suggestions for the different critique/praise entities
• Types of incompatibility conflicts
• Selector-Critic negotiation graph
• Selector-Selector negotiation graph
• Criticism of an evaluation
• Critic-praise incompatibility
• Estimate-estimate incompatibility
• Value-value incompatibility across parameter blocks
• Criticism of a value
• Value-value incompatibility
• Cup radius parameter block in COSINE