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Building Decision Support Systems in Discretionary Legal Domains
International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2000The construction of intelligent legal decision support systems in discretionary domains will enhance consistent decision-making leading to increased confidence in the justice system and provide support for alternative dispute resolution. To build such intelligent decision support systems, we classify discretionary legal domains into four (not ...
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Fuzzy Support Systems for Discretionary Judicial Decision Making
2003Judicial decision making is a very complex decision process because of the variability, flexibility and discretion that characterize it and the numerous factors affecting the results. To aid sentencing decision making, we propose an Intelligent Decision Making Support System based on case based reasoning and fuzzy logic. As an example, in this paper we
Felipe Lara-Rosano +1 more
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Discretionary Decision-Making: A Jurisprudential View
1993Abstract As Denis Galligan (1986a:l) has noted, discretion has not been a central topic of jurisprudential writing, though it has been a major focus of interest for legal sociology. While legal theory in the area of administrative law has paid significant attention to the issue of analysing discretion, it has tended to be with heavy ...
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A management view: computer security as a discretionary decision
Computers & Security, 1985Abstract The security manager needs to have an understanding of the management view of information as a resource. There are five understandings necessary if the security manager is to be seen as a part of management rather than as a necessary evil.
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The effect of earnings characteristics on firms' discretionary disclosure decisions
International Journal of Accounting and Finance, 2010This study examines whether firms expand accounting disclosures in response to perceived market undervaluation. Using a signalling theory framework, this paper predicts that managers will use disclosures to align the market's expectations about future earnings performance with their own.
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Financing Decisions and Discretionary Accruals: Managerial Manipulation or Managerial Overoptimism
Review of Behavioural Finance, 2011We examine whether discretionary accruals of firms obtaining substantial external financing can be explained by managerial manipulation or managerial overoptimism. Insider trading patterns and press releases around equity and debt financing suggest that managers are more optimistic about their firms around debt financing.
Dalia Marciukaityte, Samuel H. Szewczyk
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Discretionary Subjects: Decision and Participation in William Gibson’s Fiction
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2010This comparison of protagonists in William Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” and Pattern Recognition tests whether plot-driven fiction can produce only one type of literary subjectivity, or whether the subject can be successfully reimagined without abandoning the familiar narrative form.
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Theorising the evidence on discretionary decision making: alternative perspectives
Evidence & Policy, 2005English In recent years, a diversity of critical paradigms of evaluation research have been proposed, developed and implemented by both academic and professional evaluators. At the heart of this ‘Kuhnian revolution’ lies a questioning of the ontological, epistemological and methodological premises of quasi-experimental designs, and a commitment to ...
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The effect of discretionary price control decisions on equity values
Journal of Financial Economics, 1982Abstract The macro literature presents conflicting evidence on the effects of price controls. In this study, the fact that the macro-economic effect of wage and price controls is the aggregation of the micro-economic effects is used to implement a different approach to measure the effects of price controls.
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