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Conflict Transformation and Management. From Cognitive Maps to Value Trees

Artificial Intelligence 2023-12-14 v1

Abstract

Conflict transformation and management are complex decision processes with extremely high stakes at hand and could greatly benefit from formal approaches to decision support. For this purpose we develop a general framework about how to use problem structuring methods for such purposes. More precisely we show how to transform cognitive maps to value trees in order to promote a more design-oriented approach to decision support aiming at constructing innovative solutions for conflict management purposes. We show that our findings have a much wider validity since they allow to move from a descriptive representation of a problem situation to a more prescriptive one using formal procedures and models.

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@article{arxiv.2312.07838,
  title  = {Conflict Transformation and Management. From Cognitive Maps to Value Trees},
  author = {Berkay H. Tosunlu and Joseph H. A. Guillaume and Alexis Tsoukiàs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07838},
  year   = {2023}
}
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