EDEM 2009 – Conference on Electronic Democracy
Leave a CommentThe 2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy (EDem 2009) will take place September 7-8, 2009, at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria.
EDEM 2009 Call for Papers.
RuleML-2009
Leave a CommentThe International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world’s largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies
and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules
(inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has
also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of
thematic tracks, thus and will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration,
interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such
as the Web.
Attempto Project
Leave a CommentAttempto project is a research project of the University of Zurich, aimed at developing Attempto Controlled English (ACE), that is a controlled natural language, i.e. a defined subset of standard English designed to serve as specification and knowledge representation language. More information are available on the project website.
Fundamental Legal Concepts: A Formal and Teleological Characterisation
this paper by Giovanni Sartor introduces a set of fundamental legal concepts, a broad characterisation of their logical structure, and their role in legal reasoning.
The work is an overview of basic normative concepts, based on the following ideas: first of all, that it is useful to go beyond the usual ideas of obligation and permission, and provide legal reasoning with a larger set of normative positions. Secondly, that it is possible to provide a coherent and integrated account of the different normative modalities. Thirdly, that this account cannot be fully grounded on the ideas of obligation and permission. A different set of foundations is required for the notion of power, which needs to be connected to legal dynamics, as grounded on conditionality.
Overview
CodeX is a multidisciplinary laboratory operated by Stanford University in association with affiliated organizations from industry, government, and academia.
The primary mission of the Center is to explore ways in which information technology can be used to enhance the quality and efficiency of our legal system while decreasing its cost.
Our approach to fulfilling this mission is based on Computational Law, an innovative approach to legal informatics based on the explicit representation of laws and regulations in computable form.
The Center’s work in this area includes theoretical research on representations of legal information, the creation of technology for processing and utilizing information expressed within these representations, and the development of legal structures for ratifying and exploiting such technology.
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