@InCollection{malsch00a,
  author =	 {Thomas Malsch and Gerhard Weiss},
  title =	 {Conflicts in social theory and multiagent systems:
                  on importing sociological insights into distributed
                  artificial intelligence},
  booktitle =	 {Conflicting Agents---Conflict Management in
                  Multi-Agent Systems},
  crossref =	 {tessier00a},
  pages =	 {111--149},
  publisher =	 {Springer},
  year =	 2000,
  chapter =	 4,
  abstract =	 {This chapter seeks to give the reader an idea of how
                  to import conflict conceptions from sociology into
                  distributed AI (DAI). In a preliminary comparison of
                  conflict research in DAI and sociology, we show that
                  both disciplines talk about essentially the same
                  issues when they refer to conflict, although there
                  are important differences in their motivations and
                  reasons for studying conflict. The main sections
                  deal with conflict from the perspectives of two
                  mainstreams of sociological thought: the theory of
                  autopoietic social systems and the pragmatist
                  theories of symbolic interaction. Following our
                  attempt to derive useful conceptual insights from
                  the two theoretical approaches and to identify
                  potentialities for future interdisciplinary
                  research, six interrelated themes are described
                  which seem to be of particular promise for both DAI
                  and sociology alike.},
  keywords =     {multiagent sociology},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/malsch00a.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {10131158661687473790}
}