We build on the analogy between theorem proving and legal reasoning. In the former case it was shown that mechanized reasoning is always achieved provided there is a theory, a control on this theory and some rules governing this controlled theory once introduced in a given environment. We show that it is possible to identify similar conditions for cognitive systems and also in the legal world. ...

How do people make legal judgments based on complex bodies of interrelated evidence? This paper outlines a novel framework for evidential reasoning using causal idioms. These idioms are based on the qualitative graphical component of Bayesian networks, and are tailored to the legal context. They can be combined and reused to model complex bodies of legal evidence. This approach is applied to wi...

In this paper we describe a legal framework for simple tax status detection of transaction parties as a part of a hybrid eCommerce information system. We also focus on one, in our view more interesting point encountered during the model setup which is the case of legal knowledge modeling in such a way that it is immune to fast-pace changing of jurisdiction. This kind of quality is especially im...

This article presents a conceptual framework intended to describe and to abstract cases or scenarios of compliance and non-compliance. These scenarios are collected in order to be animated in an agent-based platform for purposes of design and validation of both new regulations and new implementations, or to be used as reference base for a diagnosis tool. In our approach, legal narratives become...

Legal document drafting is an essential professional skill for attorneys and judges. To maintain stylistic and substantive consistency and decrease drafting time, new documents are often created by modifying previous documents. This paper proposes a framework for document reuse based on an explicit representation of the illocutionary and rhetorical structure underlying documents. Explicit repre...

INTRODUCTION Penitentiary Nursing has experienced during the last decades a deep transformation similar to that experienced by the rest of the Nursing. However, there is a great distance from the protective legislation. OBJECTIVE To analyze the main legal documents which regulate the functions of Penitentiary Nursing and to compare it with the health care reality of nurses in Spanish prisons....

bstract: Cardiovascular diseases are major contributors to death, disability, disparities, and reduced quality of life in the United States. Successful prevention and control of these diseases requires a comprehensive approach applied across multiple public health settings and in all life stages. Individual lifestyle and behavior change, as well as the broader social, environmental, and policy ...