Conflict Resolution Using the Graph Model: Strategic Interactions in Competition and Cooperation

✍ Scribed by Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 153
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This cutting-edge book presents the theory and practice of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), which is used for strategically investigating disputes in any field to enable informed decision making. It clearly explains how GMCR can determine what is the best a particular decision maker (DM) can independently achieve in dynamic interaction with others. Moves and counter-moves follow various stability definitions reflecting human behavior under conflict. The book defines a wide range of preference structures to represent a DM’s comparisons of states or scenarios: equally preferred, more or less preferred; unknown; degrees of strength of preference; and hybrid. It vividly describes how GMCR can ascertain whether a DM can fare even better by cooperating with others in a coalition. The book portrays how a conflict can evolve from the status quo to a desirable resolution, and provides a universal design for a decision support system to implement the innovative decision technologies using the matrix formulation of GMCR. Further, it illustrates the key ideas using real-world conflicts and supplies problems at the end of each chapter. As such, this highly instructive book benefits teachers, mentors, students and practitioners in any area where conflict arises.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiv
Conflict Resolution in Practice (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 1-41
Decision-Making in Perspective (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 43-73
Conflict Models in Graph Form (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 75-109
Stability Definitions: Simple Preference (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 111-160
Stability Definitions: Unknown Preference (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 161-207
Stability Definitions: Degrees of Preference (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 209-259
Stability Definitions: Hybrid Preference (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 261-292
Coalitional Stabilities (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 293-352
Follow-Up Analysis: Conflict Evolution (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 353-400
Design of a Decision Support System for Conflict Resolution (Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang)....Pages 401-426
Back Matter ....Pages 427-436

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)