Problem definition: Effective responses to abrupt demand shifts encountered by a supply chain require quick identification of market shifts and an update of supply chain contracts; however, such response efforts are often hampered because the updated contracts cannot be timely executed due to...

Contract law affects behavior not just directly, by ordering damages, but also indirectly, by providing information on how the parties to the dispute behaved. Information from litigation can then help third parties decide whether to do business with the disputants going forward. Contract law...

Outsourcing public services to private providers is heralded for increasing government efficiency. Yet, outsourcing also offers opportunities to circumvent employment regulations in the public sector. The praised flexibility that private contractors have to hire employees can also be used to...

In this paper, we use the framework of dynamical systems theory to introduce a new theoretical model that captures the behavior of radio signals over hyper-space time. We focus on modeling the operation of concurrent radio services or operators as dynamical systems that transform radio signals...

We investigate the impact of observability of contracts between a plaintiff and his attorney on both the efficiency of the environmental conflict and the fairness of the resulting outcome from the environmental conflict. By including two specific game-theoretic models (an observable-contract...