Dispute resolution, a necessary function in electronic commerce, must rely on evidence that includes mechanisms to ensure non-repudiation of actions by the participants. In open systems comprising computer networks, this ‘‘non-repudiation service’’ is one type of security service defined in the ISO/IEC standards. These, as well as other literature, have defined a system framework for such a ser...

There have been many decision support systems that provide advice for resolving disputes. However, little effort has been devoted to dispute avoidance. Through the use of the intelligent eGanges shell, this work expands on interest-based negotiation support systems, to develop dispute avoidance ontologies and software for negotiation planning systems. It is suggested that intelligent negotiatio...

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...

This paper describes an experiment which consists in teaching a connexionnist model a legal dispute. The aim is to analyze the mode of representation of the dispute realized by the model, and to compare it with the representation elaborated by judges specialized in this kind of dispute. Comparison shows that the representation of the computer and that of the jurist are very similar, which makes...