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In a three-valued situation table, researchers have investigated the relationship between two agents by using auxiliary and distance functions, and proposed several models of conflict analysis for trisecting the set of all pairs of agents. But we have not observed a unification of these conflict analysis models. In this paper, we introduce the concepts of conditional alliance and conflict evaluations of two agents towards a subset of issues. In the framework of three-way decision, we propose a general model of three-way conflict analysis, and study three levels of conflict between two agents. We illustrate that five models of conflict analysis for trisecting the set of all pairs of agents are special cases of the general model, and provide a deep insight into the models of conflict analysis based on three-way decision.
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This paper was written while the author was Visiting Scholar at the University of Regina, the author is grateful to Dr. Yiyu Yao for his valuable comments and suggestions. The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their professional comments and suggestions. This work was supported in part by the China Scholarship Council (No. 201808430120), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61603063), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2018JJ3518), Hunan Provincial Education Department Foundation (No. 19B027), and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in Engineering (No. 2018MMAEZD10).
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Lang, G. A general conflict analysis model based on three-way decision. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 11, 1083–1094 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-020-01100-y
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