This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system a...
In this article we describe two core ontologies of law that specify knowledge that is common to all domains of law. The first one, FOLaw describes and explains dependencies between...
In this paper we provide a formal analysis of the idea of normative co-ordination. We argue that this idea is based on the assumption that agents can achieve flexible co-ordination...
Jonathan Gelati, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor,...
Software agents that play a role in E-commerce and E-government applications involving the Internet often contain information about the identity of their human user such as credit ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Anja Oskamp, Corien Prins, ...
The paper identies some of the problems with legal systems and outlines the potential of AI technology for overcoming them. For expository purposes, this outline is based on a si...