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The aim of the chapter is to show that differences among several agents can have positive effects in so far as they may generate original solutions and be a basis for aglobai enrichment of the agents’ knowledge. Philosophical foundations of cooperation and of the positive aspects of conflicts are first explained. Our contribution next consists in i) a formal model devoted to the representation of the knowledge exchanged by the agents and to thecharacterization of their common knowledge; ii) a formal and implemented model allowing the dynamic process of common knowledge elaboration to be represented.
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Chaudron, L., Fiorino, H., Maille, N., Tessier, C. (2000). Difference: a key to enrich knowledge — Concepts and Models. In: Müller, H.J., Dieng, R. (eds) Computational Conflicts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56980-7_5
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