Lawfutures, or, Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I\u27m Sixty Four?

I cannot imagine what it was like to practice law without a photocopy machine. In the first years of my practice, I received a few briefs typed the old fashioned way, on onion-skin paper with five sets of carbons in between. But since then, we have witnessed a continuing march of progress in information processing. From the mag card, to the memory typewriter, to the System 6, to the dedicated word processor, to the personal computer and now to the computer network, we have seen technology, when working correctly, providing tremendous assistance in meeting the demands of our busy lives. Word processing, document assembly, document management, deadline control, and many other things that lawyers did by hand are now automated. Photocopy machines facilitate an increased quality and speed of paper flow. The routine use of fax machines has reduced delivery time for paper communication by at least a day. The online transfer of word processing files allows paperless editing, coast to coast, in a matter of minutes. Advances in data storage, transfer and manipulation allow us to do, in minutes, things never thought possible

Emergency Decisionmaking During the State of Florida\u27s Response to Hurricane Andrew*

This article focuses attention on emergency decisionmaking during the State of Florida\u27s response to Hurricane Andrew, the nation\u27s costliest natural disaster

Subproblem Separation in Logic-Based Benders\u27 Decomposition for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Local Congestion

Subproblem separation is a common strategy for the acceleration of the logic-based Benders\u27 decomposition (LBBD). However, it has only been applied to problems with an inherently separable subproblem structure. This paper proposes a new method to separate the subproblem using the connected components algorithm. The subproblem separation is applied to the vehicle routing problem with local congestion (VRPLC). Accordingly, new Benders\u27 cuts are derived for the new subproblem formulation. The computational experiments evaluate the effectiveness of subproblem separation for different methods applying new cuts. It is shown that subproblem separation significantly benefits the LBBD scheme