26, No. 8, August 1993, 48-55. It should be easy to include the possibility of deriving commitments or abstracting plans in a system based on production rules triggered by regular expressions. The possible replies a human manager can send to a message are given by the set of production rules local to the manager. 48-55, August 1993. A feature interaction occurs when a feature interacts with the system, other features or services, or other instances of itself in an undesirable way.
Conflict is the problem of two features containing responsibilities that conflict with each other.
Velthuijsen, H. 1993. Distributed artificial intelligence for runtime feature-interaction resolution . This default operation leads to a conflict the between users intentions when they subscribed to the features. Communication between agents involves the exchange of requirements and bid specifications. Distributed artificial intelligence for runtime feature-interaction resolution .