Abstract
An encompassing methodology, the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), is applied to a controversial groundwater contamination dispute to demonstrate how to obtain valuable strategic insights that can lead to informed decisions. Because of GMCR’s inherently flexible systems design, both researchers and practitioners can utilize it to investigate conflict in any field. Appreciating the ability of GMCR to rigorously model and analyze actual conflict makes it easier to follow the mathematical developments in later chapters. This book contains many specific contributions, such as structures for representing preference and solution concepts describing human interactions under conflict. It describes both independent and cooperative behavior within GMCR, in both the logical and matrix formulations. A road map will help the reader navigate through these ideas and procedures. A new decision support system captures these recent GMCR developments to realize fully the capability of GMCR to address the broader scope of human strategic conflict. This chapter is essential reading as preparation for each of the other chapters in this book.
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