Book Review: Dispute Resolution and E-Discovery

Book Review: Dispute Resolution and e-Discovery

Book Review: Anaphora Resolution

In the past two decades, as the amount of available information has been growing almost exponentially and data has become ever so plentiful, the gap between existing knowledge resources (in textual, audio and video form) and the ability of computer systems to extract that very knowledge has also been alarmingly widening. The dream of having a piece of wood becoming human, speak and understand (...

Online Dispute Resolution, E-Government and Overcoming the Digital Divide

Electronic-government (e-government) involves “[t]he use of technology to enhance the access to and delivery of government services to benefit citizens, business partners and employees”.[1] One government service in particular that has much to gain from e-government is the court service, because courts in most jurisdictions have experienced and continue to experience problems with backlogs and ...

A Fair-exchange E-commerce Protocol with Automated Dispute Resolution

In this paper, we present a fair-exchange electronic commerce (e-commerce) protocol, based on using an online trusted third party, that ensures fairness and prevents any party from gaining advantage by quitting prematurely from the transaction or otherwise misbehaving. An important contribution of this protocol is that the dispute resolution is taken care of within the protocol itself and does ...

Alternative dispute resolution and mediation.

Doctors and patients are not natural enemies. On the contrary, there is commonly a special relationship between them, with vulnerability and trust on one side and caring and professional expertise on the other. A medical dispute can create turmoil of that relationship, particularly if it is conducted in the traditional adversarial procedure. Depending on how it develops, the patient may see the...