Conflict analysis and information systems: a rough set approach

  • Authors:

  • Andrzej Skowron;Sheela Ramanna;James F. Peters

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland;Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  • Venue:
  • RSKT'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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)