Modeling and decision support in cognitive conflicts

In this paper, the specific features of cognitive conflicts and methods for their resolution are considered. The basic problems of decision support in cognitive conflicts are emphasized: situation and structural analysis of c onflict situations, design of behavioural models under the conditions choic e, argumentation of decisions made, and acquisition and formalization Of Su bjective knowledge. The basic methods of formalization and solving the prob lems posed that employ the methodology of reconstruction Of subjective repr esentations, the analysis of conceptual cognitive models, and formal argume ntation facilities joined within the framework of quasi-axiomatic argumenta tion theory are considered. This paper presents a survey of the subject in question.