Priority Queuing on the Docket: Universality of Judicial Dispute Resolution Timing

Mukherjee, Satyam; Whalen, Ryan

doi:10.3389/fphy.2018.00001

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“…Sallam and Zobu [22] using simulation data on a queuing model with sequential two stations (stages) and all other conditions well defined, concluded that the simulation results approximated the theoretical results. So many authors have used queuing models in one way or the other among whom are Qureshi et al [21], Srinivas et al [25], Famule [8], Keaogile et al [13] ,Gumus et al [10], Kembe et al [14], Aradhye and Kallurkar [4], Cho et al [6] , Maedeh et al [15], Adan [1], Conte et al [7], Ugwuishiwu et al [27] ,Afrane and Appah [2] , Kama and Mankilik [12], Mukherjee and Whalen [16], Jo et al [11].…”

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Waiting Time Before Justice in the Law Sector: A QUEUEING Theory

Oghenekevwe¹,

Peace²,

Abidemi³

et al. 2021

AJTAS

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The legal system in Nigeria is be-deviled with delayed justice which has become a source of concern to many person. This is very much peculiar to those who feel that the judiciary is too slow in resolving legal issues in Nigeria. In Nigeria, there abound court cases especially those of criminal dimensions that have ongoing for years now without reaching a conclusive conclusion. The study is aimed at modelling the queuing system in the magistrate courts in Onitsha Magisterial districts. The specific objectives include: to apply the M/M/2 and M/M/3 models with identical and parallel queues to criminal cases in the Magistrate court and to compare the efficiency of the two models and in either cases to determine time to justice in criminal cases in the Magisterial District. The results of the study show that M/M/2 model with 2 identical and parallel queues have an expected number of cases in the system as 39 with 50% idle time while the M/M/3 model with 3 identical and parallel queues have an expected number of cases in the system as 23 cases with 64.88% idle time. The comparison of the two models shows M/M/2 with 2-identical and parallel queues is more efficient as it has more number of cases to attend to and less idle time. The study therefore concludes that the delays in the disposal of cases especially those with criminal nature may not be attributable to the queuing systems in place. Even though lesser number of servers is seen to be efficient, this may not be advised. Increasing the number of servers though will increase speed of disposal of cases, may also lead to increased idle time of servers. As more courts being set up may result in waste of resources, manpower and time as the 2-server system is efficient in speeding up justice delivery in the magisterial division.

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Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Application of queuing theory to the judicial system is almost non existence. Except for the work of Mukherjee and Whalen [16]. They worked on queuing behavior of time lapse between the period a case enters a court's docket and period the case disposed of.…”

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Waiting Time Before Justice in the Law Sector: A QUEUEING Theory

Oghenekevwe¹,

Peace²,

Abidemi³

et al. 2021

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“…The fibre bundle model is a discrete model and its relation to a realistic elastic material is not straightforward. Recently, it has been shown by using renormalization group analyses (by a systematic process of coarse-graining) that the model with threshold activated dynamics does correspond to an elastic material with evolving damage as is perceived in continuum damage mechanics [41].…”

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Statistical physics perspective of fracture in brittle and quasi-brittle materials

Ray

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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We discuss the physics of fracture in terms of the statistical physics associated with the failure of elastic media under applied stresses in presence of quenched disorder. We show that the development and the propagation of fracture are largely determined by the strength of the disorder and the stress field around them. Disorder acts as nucleation centres for fracture. We discuss Griffith's law for a single crack-like defect as a source for fracture nucleation and subsequently consider two situations: (i) low disorder concentration of the defects, where the failure is determined by the extreme value statistics of the most vulnerable defect (nucleation regime) and (ii) high disorder concentration of the defects, where the scaling theory near percolation transition is applicable. In this regime, the development of fracture takes place through avalanches of a large number of tiny microfractures with universal statistical features. We discuss the transition from brittle to quasi-brittle behaviour of fracture with the strength of disorder in the mean-field fibre bundle model. We also discuss how the nucleation or percolation mode of growth of fracture depends on the stress distribution range around a defect. We discuss the corresponding numerical simulation results on random resistor and spring networks. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes’.

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“…The area, today often referred to as Computational legal science, is the most recent development of this process, a development taking place in a historical moment in which the perimeter of the research areas potentially interesting for the jurist has extended to include complexity sciences [109][110][111], computational social science [112] along with a considerable number of computational techniques emerged in the most disparate disciplinary fields.…”

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Ex Machina: Analytical platforms, Law and the Challenges of Computational Legal Science

Lettieri¹,

Altamura

Giugno

et al. 2018

Future Internet

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Over the years, computation has become a fundamental part of the scientific practice in several research fields that goes far beyond the boundaries of natural sciences. Data mining, machine learning, simulations and other computational methods lie today at the hearth of the scientific endeavour in a growing number of social research areas from anthropology to economics. In this scenario, an increasingly important role is played by analytical platforms: integrated environments allowing researchers to experiment cutting-edge data-driven and computation-intensive analyses. The paper discusses the appearance of such tools in the emerging field of computational legal science. After a general introduction to the impact of computational methods on both natural and social sciences, we describe the concept and the features of an analytical platform exploring innovative cross-methodological approaches to the academic and investigative study of crime. Stemming from an ongoing project involving researchers from law, computer science and bioinformatics, the initiative is presented and discussed as an opportunity to raise a debate about the future of legal scholarship and, inside of it, about the challenges of computational legal science.

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Priority Queuing on the Docket: Universality of Judicial Dispute Resolution Timing

Cited by 15 publications

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Waiting Time Before Justice in the Law Sector: A QUEUEING Theory

Waiting Time Before Justice in the Law Sector: A QUEUEING Theory

Statistical physics perspective of fracture in brittle and quasi-brittle materials

Ex Machina: Analytical platforms, Law and the Challenges of Computational Legal Science

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