General and Specific Legal Rules

Representing Case Variations for Learning General and Specific Adaptation Rules

Adaptation is a task of case-based reasoning systems that is largely domain-dependant. This motivates the study of adaptation knowledge acquisition (AKA) that can be carried out thanks to learning processes on the variations between cases of the case base. This paper studies the representation of these variations and the impact of this representation on the AKA process, through experiments in a...

Technical Rules and Legal Rules in Online Virtual Worlds

In this paper we reflect on the legal frameworks which affect three-dimensional virtual worlds. Here visualisation and symbolisation precede formalisation on the way to construction and legal knowledge representation. Thus visualisation of virtual world issues can have a favourable effect on modelling, formal representation and implementation. The paper also identifies a legal informatics appro...

Online Judgment in the Context of International and National Rules: Ethical and Legal ‎Challenges

Background: Online judgment is an economical and faster way than the judicial one. With the ‎development of technology in recent decades, it has also been possible to make judgments ‎online. Although few countries have incorporated this approach into their laws, online ‎judgments are being developed and implemented in various areas such as international trade or ‎intellectual property. The pres...

Reforming legal regulations and internal rules

Legal Rules, Text and Ontologies Over Time

The current paper presents the “Fill the gap” project that aims to design a set of XML standards for modelling legal documents in the Semantic Web over time. The goal of the project is to design an information system using XML standards able to store in an XML-native database legal resources and legal rules in an integrated way for supporting legal knowledge engineers and end-users (e.g., publi...