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This thesis will add to the work that has been done previously at WPI on SiFAs. Although a platform for creating design systems with SiFAs has been implemented it has limited negotiation capabilities. The SINE system lacks a model for conflict resolution. Some of the questions that need to be answered are:

What are suitable conflict resolution strategies for SiFAs?
What are all possible types of conflicts that might arise among agents of different function?
On what basis can these conflicts be classified?
What strategies should the agents use during negotiation?
What knowledge do the agents need to be able to negotiate?
How should the negotiation process be implemented?
Are there commonalities between the negotiation knowledge of the agents such that the knowledge common to a group of agents may be stored as an abstraction and inherited by the agents?
Are there patterns of communication, that is, a series of messages, between certain pairs of agents that are repeated frequently?

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