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Different Types of Conflicting Knowledge in AmI Environments

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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2014)

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We characterize different types of conflicts that often occur in complex distributed multi-agent scenarios, such as in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments, and we argue that these conflicts should be resolved in a suitable order and using the most appropriate conflict resolution strategies for each individual conflict type. Our analysis shows that conflict resolution in AmI environments and similar multi-agent domains is a complex process, spanning through different levels of abstraction. The agents deployed in such environments need to handle conflicts with coordination and with certain level of agreement. We consecutively point out how this problem is currently handled in the relevant AmI literature.

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  1. Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Martin Homola

  2. FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Greece

    Theodore Patkos

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  1. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Patrick Lambrix

  2. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Eero Hyvönen

  3. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Eva Blomqvist

  4. STLab ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy

    Valentina Presutti

  5. Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Guilin Qi

  6. University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  7. Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    Ying Ding

  8. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

    Chiara Ghidini

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Homola, M., Patkos, T. (2015). Different Types of Conflicting Knowledge in AmI Environments. In: Lambrix, P., et al. Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. EKAW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8982. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17966-7_5

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