A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more effectively. A critical step in this process is improving our understanding of human-human interaction so that it may be modeled more closely. Our work addresses this task by examining the role of entrainment-the propensity of conversational p...

Based on existing literature and empirical research, partly carried out by us in 2004 and 2005, we propose in this paper a preliminary framework that is meant to be used for knowledge management of in particular individual lawyers within a law firm. The underlying idea is to combine in our framework general taxonomies of the three core elements of knowledge management within today’s law firms, ...

Commonly cited causes of the crisis include the high number of lawyers in the United States, increasing litigiousness of society, juries which side with victims rather than uncaring big business, and the growing technological complexity of society (Huber 1987). Notably absent from such accounts are explanations relating to the management practices of insurers themselves. Why are there so many t...