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Conflict analysis and conflict resolution play an important role in negotiation during contract-management situations in government and industry. The problem to be solved is how to model conflict situations where there is uncertainty about agreement, neutrality and disagreement among agents in a conflict situation. The solution to this problem includes modeling a conflict situation relative to basic binary relations on a universe of agents, introducing a measure of the degree of conflict, and encapsulating a conflict situation in an information system. The basic approach to modeling conflict situations is illustrated in the context of contract negotiation during the initial phases of requirement negotiation for a systems engineering project. An example of a high-level requirements negotiation for an automated lighting system is presented. The contribution of this paper is a rough set based requirements determination model using a conflict relation for representing requirements agreements (or disagreements).
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Skowron, A., Ramanna, S., Peters, J.F. (2006). Conflict Analysis and Information Systems: A Rough Set Approach. In: Wang, GY., Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Yao, Y. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11795131_34
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