Disputes routinely arise in construction projects, and they have major cost and schedule
impacts. Therefore, they need to be either prevented effectively by proper contract and …

Rapid advancements in the application of soft computing tools and techniques have proven
valuable in the development of highly scalable systems. Although many resources on the …

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Litigation in court is still the main dispute resolution mode. However, given the amount and
characteristics of the new disputes, mostly arising out of electronic contracting, courts are …

Alternative dispute resolution has now supplanted litigation as the principal method of
dispute resolution. This overview of dispute resolution addresses practical developments in …

In this article, we review the use of Artificial Intelligence to provide intelligent dispute
resolution support. In the early years there was little systematic development of such …

Abstract Negotiation Support Systems have traditionally modelled the process of
negotiation. They often rely on mathematical optimisation techniques and ignore heuristics …

The growing use of Information Technology in the commercial arena leads to an urgent
need to find alternatives to traditional dispute resolution. New tools from fields such as …

Judicial responsiveness requires judges to act from the perspective of conscious legal
rationality and also with intuition, empathy and compassion. To what extent will the judicial …

An opportunity to resolve disputes as an out-of-court settlement through computer-mediated
communication is usually easier, faster, and cheaper than filing an action in court. Artificial …