Luke Anderson's research while affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University and other places

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In the absence of other published standards of care, it is reasonable for contractual parties to rely on an applicable, widely available code of conduct to guide expectations. The authors illustrate the current application of CoCs with a fictional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation failure that is a compilation of real-life ca...
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We describe an important trend: increasing use by the US judicial system of CoCs to resolve disputes. Specifically, CoCs are being used to judge, literally, the performance of non-code subscribers and unaffiliated organizations. We illustrate successful use of an IEEE CoC at arbitration, resulting in a multi-million dollar judgment against an organ...

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... A key concern in the literature is a discussion of the potential risks involved in legal disputes and how to mitigate these risks. In case of a legal dispute, courts will typically try to determine a baseline by looking at the state-of-the-practice and standard/duty of care [15] [23] [16]. Jones describes the typical course of action as follows: "software expert witnesses are hired to prepare reports and testify about industry norms for topics such as quality control, schedules costs, and the like. . . . ...