We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous cont...

The theme of the paper is to find the tasks faced by organizations in the accomplishment of RFID projects as well as how assessment of RFID value can be made. Explicitly, papers will cover three key segments, that is, Applications, Disputes and Assessment. The first segment ‘Applications’ elucidates the various applications that RFID can be positioned; the second segment ‘Disputes’ is apprehens...

Many disputes between buyers and sellers concern product quality and whether a claim of poor product performance is covered by a warranty issued by the seller. We develop an analytical framework in which average product quality, buyer preferences, production and transaction costs, and the extent to which "true" quality can be observed by buyer and seller interact to determine warranties, produc...

We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous cont...

mediation is one of the most important methods for settlement of disputes. it may settle any disputes out of governmental courts and on private/confidential basis and quicker and cheaper than governmental courts. parties may hold different sessions for settlement of disputes and the most important factors in further success of mediation method and concluding any settlement agreement are the per...

My intention in this paper is to spell out four great issues that divide philosophers who think about the metaphysics of properties. The issues are largely independent of each other. The way the cats jump on one does not seem greatly to prejudge the way they will jump on the other issues. I shall indicate my preferences, but I shall be as much concerned to survey the scene as to push my particu...

Mediation is a type of third party intervention in environmental and other kinds of disputes. Its characteristics – voluntary participation and agreement, confidentiality of exchanges among parties, the search for mutually satisfactory solutions – are well suited for the multi-party, complex context of environmental conflicts. Mediation is often used concurrently with other modes of conflict ma...

LINK TO PAPER Boundary Dispute Settlement Using Mobile GIS Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Jeroen Verplanke, Mike McCall Boundary disputes in Tanzania are occurring because of land tenure insecurity. Settling disputes is necessary to enable land use planning at the village level as required by the national planning authorities. Visualization of boundaries, with a PDA running ArcPad...

INTRODUCTION Since the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990’s, Japan’s industrial society experienced a drastic increase in individual employment disputes. At the same time, union management disputes have been clearly on the decline since the 1980’s. To cope with such a structural change of labor disputes, it was necessary to restructure the labor dispute resolution system, which wa...