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I will argue that the cognitive attitudes and operations involved in compliance with normative systems are usually different from those involved in complying with isolated social norms. While isolated norms must be stored in the memory of the agents ...

The aim of this paper is to provide a constraint satisfaction account of the doctrine of consistent interpretation developed by the European Court of Justice (now the Court of Justice of the EU) to protect effective and harmonious realization of the ...

The paper examines the impact of robotics technology on contemporary legal systems and, more particularly, some of the legal challenges brought on by the information revolution in the fields of criminal law, contracts, and tort law. Whereas, in ...

One of the reasons that future robots will enhance their intelligence and actions in an unstructured environment is because of their "networked" feature. Current robot designs have difficulty in understanding unstructured environments due to the ...

Cloud computing represents a new business paradigm whereby a series of computing resources are offered as a service, available on-demand, on a pay-per-use basis, over the Internet. In this paper, we propose a hypothesis of how Cloud computing can be ...

In conformity with the global tendency, balancing is increasingly used in judicial practice as an argumentation technique for solving legal disputes; more and more, judges of all levels ground their decisions on the balancing of individual rights, ...

In this paper we present the results of a study to see whether the number of citations to cases is an indication of the relevance and authority of these cases in the Dutch legal system. Fowler e.a. have shown such results for the US common law system, ...

The paper shows how to model judgments starting from the text and capturing not only the structural parts, but also the basic arguments used by the judge to reach its conclusions. We have also included a qualification of citations following the Shepard'...

We introduce the Eunomos software, an advanced legal document management system with terminology management. We describe the challenges of legal research in an increasingly complex, multi-level and multi-lingual world and how the Eunomos software helps ...

In this paper an approach to the Semantic Web in the legal domain is presented: it is obtained by modelling legislative document semantic profiles using a model of normative provisions. An implementation of this approach through RDF/OWL, describing ...

Scholarly communication is facing great changes due to the revolution of digital technology and the raising of new economic models for academic publishing. In the legal domain, in particular, these changes affect a scenario dominated by a rigid and ...

In this paper we propose an Open Access model for Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) publications in three steps: Accredited Public Archival (APA), Comment-Open Publication (COP) and peer reviewed Publication (PRP). This raises some ethical and legal ...

We provide technical details for combining normal and a non-normal logics for the notion of collective trust. Such combinations lead to different levels of expressiveness of the system. We give a possible structure for a combined model checker for one ...

Despite the wide use of agent-based applications in different areas of human activity, there hasn't been paid much attention to understand how these applications are possible, taking into account that they are build by people coming from such ...

This paper investigates criminal sentencing in the Australian State of Victoria in particular the intuitive nature of the decision making and the difficulties of representing intuitive knowledge. In order for decision systems to be useful for the ...

In public administration, legal knowledge in the form of critical incidents and, for want of a better word, noncompliance storylines is important for monitoring and enforcement, but has no natural place in traditional forms of legal knowledge ...

In this work we illustrate a novel approach for solving an information extraction problem on legal texts. It is based on Natural Language Processing techniques and on the adoption of a formalization that allows coupling domain knowledge and syntactic ...

The FrameNet database has been used for semantic tagging and multilingual lexicon development. This paper describes the initial steps in the development of a lexicographic project that aims to build a legal frame-based lexicon for the Brazilian legal ...

In this paper we analyse the Creative Commons computerized licensing system. We draw the attention to the fact that despite considerable efforts to make the complicated task of licensing work using so-called free license as simple as possible, the ...

We believe that an important element towards the improvement of online legal services lies in the ability to identify legally relevant textual segments in users queries. In this line, this paper presents a case study in the processing of citizens ...