Legal Event Reasoning for Software Agents

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  • Alexander Yip
  • Jim Cunningham
چکیده

In a previous paper the authors extended a top-level reference ontology to support the representation and reasoning of legal ownership concepts in multi agent communication. In this paper we further enhance this ontology. However, for a software agent to reason about such concepts, it is also necessary to have a computational model of the ontological system. One way to model such system is to treat the communication as process and actions. This paper presents a partial implementation of an agent that supports such temporal events (process and actions) for reasoning about legal concepts.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004