Conflict Resolution and its Context From the Analysis of Behavioural Patterns to Efficient Decision-Making /

• Main Authors: Carneiro, Davide (Author), Novais, Paulo (Author), Neves, José (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Law, Governance and Technology Series, 18
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Fundamentals of Law.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

This book studies how technological solutions can be used to alleviate the current state of legal systems, with their clogged up courtrooms and inefficient conflict resolution methods. It reviews the shortcomings and disadvantages of traditional and alternative conflict resolution methods and turns...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Traditional and Alternative ways to Solve Conflicts
• 3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Avoiding the Courtroom
• 4 Artificial Intelligence in Online Dispute Resolution
• 5 Context and its Importance
• Part II
• 6 An Agent-based Architecture for a Second Generation ODR Tool
• 7 Information Retrieval
• 8 The Conflict Resolution Process
• Part III
• 9 A Framework for Developing Sensible Environments
• 10 Inferring Conflict Resolution Styles
• 11 Stress in Conflict Resolution
• Part IV
• 12 Analysis of Practical Results
• 13 Concluding Remarks and Future Thoughts.