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Using conflict theory to model complex societal interactions

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Joe Fitzgerald,

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Future Play '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share

Pages 65 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/1496984.1496996

Published: 03 November 2008 Publication History

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Conflict theory can be used to explain the interactions between societies during times of turmoil and change (i.e. revolutions, strikes or everyday debates). Games have been produced that make use of different aspects of conflict theory; however a common framework for organizing a system to produce realistic conflicts has not been created. This paper presents one such framework, based upon principles of conflict theory, which describe a generalized way of organizing a system to produce realistic conflict situations among societies. With our framework, we present how current commercial games represent conflict and how our framework can be implemented by these games in order to increase the system's flexibility and accuracy in representing conflict.

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Campos JMartinho CPaiva AAndre EKoenig SDastani MSukthankar G(2018)Modelling Conflict Dynamics in Dyadic InteractionsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems10.5555/3237383.3238127(2218-2220)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3237383.3238127
Campos JMartinho CPaiva AGini MShehory OIto TJonker C(2013)Conflict inside outProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems10.5555/2484920.2485039(761-768)Online publication date: 6-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2484920.2485039

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Future Play '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share

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ISBN:9781605582184

DOI:10.1145/1496984

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University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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Algoma University

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Campos JMartinho CPaiva AAndre EKoenig SDastani MSukthankar G(2018)Modelling Conflict Dynamics in Dyadic InteractionsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems10.5555/3237383.3238127(2218-2220)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3237383.3238127
Campos JMartinho CPaiva AGini MShehory OIto TJonker C(2013)Conflict inside outProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems10.5555/2484920.2485039(761-768)Online publication date: 6-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2484920.2485039

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