Computable models of the law : languages, dialogues, games, ontologies / Pompeu Casanovas [and others] (eds).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Computable Models of the Law and ICT: State of the Art and Trends in European Research / Giovanni Sartor, Pompeu Casanovas, Nuria Casellas, and Rossella Rubino -- I. Knowledge Representation, Ontologies and XML Legislative Drafting -- MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format / Alexander Boer, Radboud Winkels, and Fabio Vitali -- MetaVex: Regulation Drafting Meets the Semantic Web / Saskia van de Ven, Rinke Hoekstra, Radboud Winkels, Emile de Maat, and Adam Kollar -- Building Semantic Resources for Legislative Drafting: The DALOS Project / Enrico Francesconi and Daniela Tiscornia -- II. Knowledge Representation, Legal Ontologies and Information Retrieval -- Moving in the Time: An Ontology for Identifying Legal Resources / Joao Alberto de Oliveira Lima, Monica Palmirani, and Fabio Vitali -- An Ontology for Spatial Regulations / Tom van Engers, Erik Hupkes, Radboud Winkels, and Alexander Boer -- Supporting the Construction of Spanish Legal Ontologies with Text2Onto / Johanna Volker, Sergi Fernandez Langa, and York Sure -- Dynamic Aspects of OPJK Legal Ontology / Zhisheng Huang, Stefan Schlobach, Frank van Harmelen, Nuria Casellas, and Pompeu Casanovas -- Improvements in Recall and Precision in Wolters Kluwer Spain Legal Search Engine / Angel Sancho Ferrer, Jose Manuel Mateo Rivero, and Alejandro Mesas Garcia -- III. Argumentation and Legal Reasoning -- Three Senses of "Argument" / Adam Z. Wyner, Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, and Katie Atkinson -- Constructing Legal Arguments with Rules in the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF) Assumption-Based Argumentation for Epistemic and Practical Reasoning / Francesca Toni -- Computing Argumentation for Decision Making in Legal Disputes / Maxime Morge -- Deterrence and Defeasibility in Argumentation Process for ALIS Project / Michel Rudnianski and Helene Bestougeff -- Temporal Deontic Defeasible Logic: An Analytical Approach / Regis Riveret and Antonino Rotolo -- Rulebase Technology and Legal Knowledge Representation / Giuseppe Contissa -- IV. Normative and Multi-agent Systems -- Source Norms and Self-regulated Institutions / Rossella Rubino and Giovanni Sartor -- Distributed Norm Enforcement: Ostracism in Open Multi-Agent Systems / Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, and Marco Schorlemmer -- V. Online Dispute Resolution -- 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, Paul E.M. Huygen, and Frank van Harmelen -- ICT-Supported Dispute Resolution / Claudia Cevenini and Gianluigi Fioriglio -- Concepts and Fields of Relational Justice / Pompeu Casanovas and Marta Poblet.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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