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Research paper thumbnail of Critical Legal Issues Associated with Arbitration Agreement

Journal of legal affairs and dispute resolution in engineering and construction, May 1, 2024

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Research paper thumbnail of Utility function under decision theory: A construction arbitration application

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of The Arbitrating Party Utility Function: An Expected Utility Approach

Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 2017

AbstractThe complex nature of construction projects and the involvement of a large number of unpr... more AbstractThe complex nature of construction projects and the involvement of a large number of unpredictable correlated factors make them susceptible to disputes. Although a wide range of dispute res...

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Research paper thumbnail of Single Forward and Reverse Supply Chain

EcoProduction, 2014

Supply chain involves the procurement structure, logistics, and inventory management from the poi... more Supply chain involves the procurement structure, logistics, and inventory management from the point of origin to the end user of a product or service. In this chapter, Single Forward and Reverse Supply Chain (SFRSC) system is introduced where it is assumed that stores receive products from a single warehouse with a fixed lead times. Moreover, orders are assumed to have identical sizes and that they occur at equivalent time intervals which suggest that the natural inventory policy at warehouses and retailers is Economic Order Quantity (EOQ). Different types of costs are considered beside other social and environmental welfare costs that are outlined in this chapter. We, hence; extend the lagrangian relaxation approach that simulates the planning of supply chain to capture environmental and social factors along with economic ones.

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Machines Replace the Human Brain? A Review of Litigation Outcome Prediction Methods for Construction Disputes

Construction projects are naturally complicated and involve large number of unpredictable as well... more Construction projects are naturally complicated and involve large number of unpredictable as well as external interrelated factors. Complex construction projects value is in excess of billions of dollars. As a result, disputes between the contracting parties are critical and difficult to resolve. Traditionally, litigation was the only avenue to resolve such disputes. However, with its complicated nature and technicalities involved, construction projects’ experts deployed alternative dispute resolution methods such as arbitration and mediation. Each vary in the involved resources and the legal consequences. Litigation, however, is found to be one of the most expensive and time consuming methods. Moreover, the results of litigation are unguaranteed. Therefore, researchers attempted to predict the outcome of litigation in the field of construction dispute to give the contracting parties a good order of estimate on the expected outcome. This would be a good tool to decide whether a part...

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Research paper thumbnail of Evidence Admissibility and Evaluation Models in Commercial Arbitration

Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction

Contracts are designed to govern the relations between business partners and allocate risk among ... more Contracts are designed to govern the relations between business partners and allocate risk among them, yet they cannot mitigate all risks; hence, dispute resolution mechanisms have been developed to assist. According to research, arbitration is considered one of the most efficient legally binding dispute resolution mechanisms. Since initiating an arbitration case against business partners often severs the business relationship between them, predicting the arbitrator's decision becomes valuable to the arbitrating parties. To do so, arbitration prediction models are suggested in this paper through modeling the arbitrator's award in two stages: evidence admissibility and evidence evaluation. While arbitrators currently admit evidence in a relatively unsystematic way, this proposed admissibility framework systemizes the current practice by preserving its subjectivity, yet aligning it with the widely deployed rules of arbitration. This research further proposes an evidence evaluation model, providing a rapid answer to the famous commercial arbitration battle, discovery. While the current arbitrators' practice in allowing discovery is not systematic, the proposed optimization model is a tool that could systematically assist arbitrators trading between the arbitration key characteristic, efficiency, and justice. This is achieved by assigning weights to evidence parameters such as sufficiency and credibility, which in turn provide numerical measures to reduce the decision's subjectivity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Utility Function under Decision Theory: A Construction Arbitration Application

While a wide range of dispute resolution mechanisms exist, practitioners favor legally binding on... more While a wide range of dispute resolution mechanisms exist, practitioners favor legally binding ones such as litigation and arbitration. Since initiating a litigation or arbitration case against a business partner may dissolve the business relationship between them, predicting the arbitrator’s decision becomes valuable to the arbitrating parties. This paper proposes a construction-specific utility framework for the arbitrating party through decision theory, and based on expected utility theory. The proposed framework preserves the industry practicality and most importantly, considers direct short term factors and indirect long-term factors as well. It is suggested that the arbitrating parties’ utility functions could be then used to identify equilibrium points among them when interact via game theory principles, which would serve the purpose of predicting the arbitration outcome.

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Research paper thumbnail of Critical Legal Issues Associated with Arbitration Agreement

Journal of legal affairs and dispute resolution in engineering and construction, May 1, 2024

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Research paper thumbnail of Utility function under decision theory: A construction arbitration application

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of The Arbitrating Party Utility Function: An Expected Utility Approach

Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 2017

AbstractThe complex nature of construction projects and the involvement of a large number of unpr... more AbstractThe complex nature of construction projects and the involvement of a large number of unpredictable correlated factors make them susceptible to disputes. Although a wide range of dispute res...

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Research paper thumbnail of Single Forward and Reverse Supply Chain

EcoProduction, 2014

Supply chain involves the procurement structure, logistics, and inventory management from the poi... more Supply chain involves the procurement structure, logistics, and inventory management from the point of origin to the end user of a product or service. In this chapter, Single Forward and Reverse Supply Chain (SFRSC) system is introduced where it is assumed that stores receive products from a single warehouse with a fixed lead times. Moreover, orders are assumed to have identical sizes and that they occur at equivalent time intervals which suggest that the natural inventory policy at warehouses and retailers is Economic Order Quantity (EOQ). Different types of costs are considered beside other social and environmental welfare costs that are outlined in this chapter. We, hence; extend the lagrangian relaxation approach that simulates the planning of supply chain to capture environmental and social factors along with economic ones.

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Machines Replace the Human Brain? A Review of Litigation Outcome Prediction Methods for Construction Disputes

Construction projects are naturally complicated and involve large number of unpredictable as well... more Construction projects are naturally complicated and involve large number of unpredictable as well as external interrelated factors. Complex construction projects value is in excess of billions of dollars. As a result, disputes between the contracting parties are critical and difficult to resolve. Traditionally, litigation was the only avenue to resolve such disputes. However, with its complicated nature and technicalities involved, construction projects’ experts deployed alternative dispute resolution methods such as arbitration and mediation. Each vary in the involved resources and the legal consequences. Litigation, however, is found to be one of the most expensive and time consuming methods. Moreover, the results of litigation are unguaranteed. Therefore, researchers attempted to predict the outcome of litigation in the field of construction dispute to give the contracting parties a good order of estimate on the expected outcome. This would be a good tool to decide whether a part...

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Research paper thumbnail of Evidence Admissibility and Evaluation Models in Commercial Arbitration

Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction

Contracts are designed to govern the relations between business partners and allocate risk among ... more Contracts are designed to govern the relations between business partners and allocate risk among them, yet they cannot mitigate all risks; hence, dispute resolution mechanisms have been developed to assist. According to research, arbitration is considered one of the most efficient legally binding dispute resolution mechanisms. Since initiating an arbitration case against business partners often severs the business relationship between them, predicting the arbitrator's decision becomes valuable to the arbitrating parties. To do so, arbitration prediction models are suggested in this paper through modeling the arbitrator's award in two stages: evidence admissibility and evidence evaluation. While arbitrators currently admit evidence in a relatively unsystematic way, this proposed admissibility framework systemizes the current practice by preserving its subjectivity, yet aligning it with the widely deployed rules of arbitration. This research further proposes an evidence evaluation model, providing a rapid answer to the famous commercial arbitration battle, discovery. While the current arbitrators' practice in allowing discovery is not systematic, the proposed optimization model is a tool that could systematically assist arbitrators trading between the arbitration key characteristic, efficiency, and justice. This is achieved by assigning weights to evidence parameters such as sufficiency and credibility, which in turn provide numerical measures to reduce the decision's subjectivity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Utility Function under Decision Theory: A Construction Arbitration Application

While a wide range of dispute resolution mechanisms exist, practitioners favor legally binding on... more While a wide range of dispute resolution mechanisms exist, practitioners favor legally binding ones such as litigation and arbitration. Since initiating a litigation or arbitration case against a business partner may dissolve the business relationship between them, predicting the arbitrator’s decision becomes valuable to the arbitrating parties. This paper proposes a construction-specific utility framework for the arbitrating party through decision theory, and based on expected utility theory. The proposed framework preserves the industry practicality and most importantly, considers direct short term factors and indirect long-term factors as well. It is suggested that the arbitrating parties’ utility functions could be then used to identify equilibrium points among them when interact via game theory principles, which would serve the purpose of predicting the arbitration outcome.

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