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Computable Models of the Law

Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Pompeu Casanovas

    1. Institute of Law and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Giovanni Sartor

    1. Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

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  3. Núria Casellas

    1. Institute of Law and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Rossella Rubino

    1. CIRSFID, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4884)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Computable Models of the Law

    1. Computable Models of the Law and ICT: State of the Art and Trends in European Research

      • Giovanni Sartor, Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas, Rossella Rubino
      Pages 1-20

  3. I Knowledge Representation, Ontologies and XML Legislative Drafting

    1. MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format

      • Alexander Boer, Radboud Winkels, Fabio Vitali
      Pages 21-41

    2. MetaVex: Regulation Drafting Meets the Semantic Web

      • Saskia van de Ven, Rinke Hoekstra, Radboud Winkels, Emile de Maat, Ádám Kollár
      Pages 42-55

    3. Building Semantic Resources for Legislative Drafting: The DALOS Project

      • Enrico Francesconi, Daniela Tiscornia
      Pages 56-70

  4. II Knowledge Representation, Legal Ontologies and Information Retrieval

    1. Moving in the Time: An Ontology for Identifying Legal Resources

      • João Alberto de Oliveira Lima, Monica Palmirani, Fabio Vitali
      Pages 71-85

    2. An Ontology for Spatial Regulations

      • Tom van Engers, Erik Hupkes, Radboud Winkels, Alexander Boer
      Pages 86-104

    3. Supporting the Construction of Spanish Legal Ontologies with Text2Onto

      • Johanna Völker, Sergi Fernandez Langa, York Sure
      Pages 105-112

    4. Dynamic Aspects of OPJK Legal Ontology

      • Zhisheng Huang, Stefan Schlobach, Frank van Harmelen, Núria Casellas, Pompeu Casanovas
      Pages 113-129

    5. Improvements in Recall and Precision in Wolters Kluwer Spain Legal Search Engine

      • Angel Sancho Ferrer, Jose Manuel Mateo Rivero, Alejandro Mesas García
      Pages 130-145

  5. III Argumentation and Legal Reasoning

    1. Three Senses of “Argument”

      • Adam Z. Wyner, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson
      Pages 146-161

    2. Constructing Legal Arguments with Rules in the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF)

      • Thomas F. Gordon
      Pages 162-184

    3. Assumption-Based Argumentation for Epistemic and Practical Reasoning

      • Francesca Toni
      Pages 185-202

    4. Computing Argumentation for Decision Making in Legal Disputes

      • Maxime Morge
      Pages 203-218

    5. Deterrence and Defeasibility in Argumentation Process for ALIS Project

      • Michel Rudnianski, Hélène Bestougeff
      Pages 219-238

    6. Temporal Deontic Defeasible Logic: An Analytical Approach

      • Régis Riveret, Antonino Rotolo
      Pages 239-253

    7. Rulebase Technology and Legal Knowledge Representation

      • Giuseppe Contissa
      Pages 254-262

  6. IV Normative and Multi-agent Systems

    1. Source Norms and Self-regulated Institutions

      • Rossella Rubino, Giovanni Sartor
      Pages 263-274

    2. Distributed Norm Enforcement: Ostracism in Open Multi-Agent Systems

      • Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, Marco Schorlemmer
      Pages 275-290

  7. V Online Dispute Resolution

    1. Retrieval of Case Law to Provide Layman with Information about Liability: Preliminary Results of the BEST-Project

      • Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Arno R. Lodder, Michel C. A. Klein, Gwen R. Wildeboer, Wouter Van Steenbergen, Rory L. L. Sie et al.
      Pages 291-311
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About this book

Information technology has now pervaded the legal sector, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes are ubiquitous. European policies on transparency and information society, in particular, require the use of technology and its steady improvement.

Some of the revised papers presented in this book originate from a workshop held at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy, in December 2006. The workshop was devoted to the discussion of the different ways of understanding and explaining contemporary law, for the purpose of building computable models of it -- especially models enabling the development of computer applications for the legal domain. During the course of the following year, several new contributions, provided by a number of ongoing (or recently finished) European projects on computation and law, were received, discussed and reviewed to complete the survey.

This book presents 20 thoroughly refereed revised papers on the hot topics under research in different EU projects: legislative XML, legal ontologies, semantic web, search and meta-search engines, web services, system architecture, dialectic systems, dialogue games, multi-agent systems (MAS), legal argumentation, legal reasoning, e-justice, and online dispute resolution. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation, ontologies and XML legislative drafting; knowledge representation, legal ontologies and information retrieval; argumentation and legal reasoning; normative and multi-agent systems; and online dispute resolution.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Law and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas

  • Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

  • CIRSFID, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Rossella Rubino

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