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Valente, André; Breuker, Joost; Brouwer, B.

doi:10.1006/ijhc.1999.0298

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“…What is especially relevant in the present context is BVW's view of model-based reasoning; their approach moves away from pure heuristic reasoning towards a full representation of the principles and contents of legal knowledge. But they claim that full modelbased reasoning is not adequate for the task at hand, so that ''weaker versions of model-based reasoning that do not require full envisioning'' (Valente et al 1999(Valente et al , p. 1082 are preferable. 16 It cannot be denied that fullblown model based reasoning is hardly feasible in a domain as complex as legal reasoning.…”

Section: Ontological Models Of the Legal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…''Primary norms address individual behavior (instances of behaviour) in the world by means of reference to patterns of behavior'' (Valente et al 1999(Valente et al , p. 1093. and ''.…”

Section: Ontological Status Of Plans and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. in law the causal reasoning is contingent upon notions of responsibility, i.e., one has to take into account also the concepts 'intention' and 'knowledge/belief''' (Valente et al 1999(Valente et al , p. 1102). …”

Section: Ontological Status Of Plans and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Ontological Status of Plans and Norms

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Abstract. 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 aims at regulating a society, then its goal can be achieved only by affecting the behaviour of the members of the society. We assume that a society is made up of agents (which can be individuals, institutions, software programs, etc.), that agents have beliefs, goals and preferences, and that they commit to intentions in order to choose a line of behaviour. The role of norms, within a legal system, is to specify how and when the chosen behaviour agrees with the basic principles of the legal system. In this article, we show how a model based on plans can be the basis for the ontological representation of norms, which are expressed as constraints on the possible plans an agent may choose to guide its behaviour. Moreover, the paper describes how the proposed model can be linked to the upper level of a philosophically well-founded ontology (DOLCE); in this way, the model is set in a wider perspective, which opens the way to further developments.

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Section: Ontological Models Of the Legal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…''Primary norms address individual behavior (instances of behaviour) in the world by means of reference to patterns of behavior'' (Valente et al 1999(Valente et al , p. 1093. and ''.…”

Section: Ontological Status Of Plans and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Ontological Status of Plans and Norms

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“…In this section, we overview three models, which seem more relevant for setting the context of the present work. In various papers, Breuker, Valente and Winkels (BVW) have described a 'functional model' of legal systems [7,25].…”

Section: Ontological Models Of the Legal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their approach moves away from pure heuristic reasoning towards a full representation of the principles and contents of legal knowledge. However, they claim that full model-based reasoning is not adequate for the task at hand, so that "weaker versions of model-based reasoning that do not require full envisioning" [25], p.1082 are preferable. It cannot be denied that full-blown model based reasoning is hardly feasible in a domain as complex as legal reasoning.…”

Section: Ontological Models Of the Legal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Ontological Status of Norms

Boella

Lesmo

Damiano

2005

Law and the Semantic Web

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Abstract. 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 aims at regulating a society, then its goal can be achieved only by affecting the behavior of the members of the society. We assume that a society is made up of agents (which can be individuals, institutions, software programs, etc.), that agents have beliefs, goals and preferences, and that they commit to intentions in order to choose a line of behavior. The role of norms, within a legal system, is to specify how and when the chosen behavior agrees with the basic principles of the legal system. In this article, we show how a model based on plans can be the basis for the ontological representation of norms, linking them to the upper level of a philosophically well-founded ontology (DOLCE); in this way, the model is set in a wider perspective, which opens the way to further developments.

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