Conflict resolution using the graph model : strategic interactions in competition and cooperation / Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang.
2018
T57.95
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Title
Conflict resolution using the graph model : strategic interactions in competition and cooperation / Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang.
Author
Xu, Haiyan, author.
ISBN
9783319776705 (electronic book)
3319776703 (electronic book)
9783319776699
3319776703 (electronic book)
9783319776699
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxiv, 436 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-77670-5 doi
Call Number
T57.95
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.4/03
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file PDF
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2018).
Series
Studies in systems, decision and control ; v. 153. 2198-4182
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Print version: 9783319776699
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Table of Contents
Conflict Resolution in Practice
Decision Making in Perspective
Conflict Models in Graph Form
Stability Definitions: Simple Preference
Stability Definitions: Unknown Preference
Stability Definitions: Degrees of Preference
Stability Definitions: Hybrid Preference
Coalitional Stabilities
Follow-up Analysis: Conflict Evolution
Design of a Decision Support System for Conflict Resolution.
Decision Making in Perspective
Conflict Models in Graph Form
Stability Definitions: Simple Preference
Stability Definitions: Unknown Preference
Stability Definitions: Degrees of Preference
Stability Definitions: Hybrid Preference
Coalitional Stabilities
Follow-up Analysis: Conflict Evolution
Design of a Decision Support System for Conflict Resolution.