People & Groups

Here is just a small sample of the many people and groups working in this area:

A-C

• Dave Brown works on the application of AI techniques to design problems, and runs an AI in Design research group at Worcester Polytechnic University. His work includes studying the effects of agent learning on conflicts in multi-agent design systems.
• Dennis Bahler at NC State University
• Sandra Carberry at the University of Delaware.
• Cristiano Castelfranchi 's group at the Italian National Research Council does research on the general theory of conflicts, including intra-agent (mental) and inter-agents (social) conflicts, as well as epistemic (between beliefs) vs goal conflicts.
• Dr. Frances Brazier in the AI group of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
• Laurent Chaudron, Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France (co-chair).
• Juergen Mueller, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
• Joël Quinqueton, Inria, France
• Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
• Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, USA
• Catherine Tessier, Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France (co-chair).

D-F

• The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Unit at Queen Mary & Westfield College, headed by Nick Jennings, does work on computational negotiation.
• Steve Fickas of the University of Oregon is studying ways that conflicts can be detected and resolutions generated during the software process.
• Hossam El-Bibany of Pennsylvania State University works on conflict management in collaborative design.
• Love Ekenberg at the Dept. of Information Technology in Mid Sweden University has done work on handling semantic differences in the context of multi-agent goal conflicts.
• Rose Dieng does conflict management work as part of the ACACIA project at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis in France.

G-I

• Prof.Fiorella de Rosis heads the Intelligent Interfaces Research Group at the University of Bari in Italy, where he has done work on agents capable of believeable conflict resolution dialogues.
• Will Hughes at the University of Reading has done relevant work in the construction domain.
• Cris Garcia at PUC-RIO University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Mike Genesereth of Stanford University

J-L

• Mark Klein works on different aspects of coordination technology, including conflict management in collaborative design settings, design rationale capture, and process exception handling, at the MIT Center for Coordination Science.
• Taha Khedro
• Daniel Kuokka
• Sarit Kraus of the DAI Group at Bar-Ilan University.

M-O

• Roger Moore teaches a free Internet class on Managing Conflict in Business
• The Multi-Agent Systems Lab at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, headed by Victor Lesser, does research on AI problem-solving and control architectures for multiple-agent systems, including work on negotiation and other forms of conflict management.
• Juergen Mueller of the Computer Science Institute at theTechnical University of Freiberg.
• William Mark of the Lockheed AI Center.
• Matta Nada is a Post-doctorant in INRIA (the National Instituteof Research of Informatik and Automatic) in France, and studies conflict management in Concurrent Engineering. See, for example, her on-line libray of generic conflict management methods.
• Prof Philippe MATHIEU (Professor in Computer Science at LIFL, Lille University, France) is working with his SMAC group on agents and specially on strategies evaluation for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: "We have good results and for example we won the tournament organized during ALIFE V Kyoto." See his web site for details.

P-R

• The RAPPID project, led by Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak, uses novel market-based mechanisms for collaborative design conflict management.
• Charles Petrie of the Stanford Center for Design Research.
• Feniosky Pena-Mora of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Joël Quinqueton, Inria, France

S-U

• Ian Smith of the Swiss Federal Institute
• Sandip Sen at the University of Tulsa
• Katia Sycara of CMU.
• Sarosh Talukdar at CMU does work on collaboration methods for software agents and self organizing agents.
• Prof.dr J. Treur in the Artificial Intelligence Group of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
• Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA
• Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, USA
• Catherine Tessier, Onera-Cert, Toulouse, France
  

V-X

• Dr. Volker Wulf of the Research Group for HCI and CSCW at the University of Bonn Institute for Computer Science.

Y-Z