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    Time and compensation mechanisms in checking legal compliance

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    In this paper we extend the logic of violation proposed by [23] with time, more precisely, we temporalise that logic. The resulting system allows us to capture many subtleties of the concept of legal compliance. In particular, the formal characterisation of compliance can handle different types of legal obligation and different temporal constraints over them. The logic is also able to represent, and reason about, chains of reparative obligations, since in many cases the fulfillment of these types of obligation still amounts to legally acceptable situations

    Applications of linear defeasible logic: Combining resource consumption and exceptions to energy management and business processes

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    Linear Logic and Defeasible Logic have been adopted to formalise different features of knowledge representation: consumption of resources, and non monotonic reasoning in particular to represent exceptions. Recently, a framework to combine sub-structural features, corresponding to the consumption of resources, with defeasibility aspects to handle potentially conflicting information, has been discussed in literature, by some of the authors. Two applications emerged that are very relevant: energy management and business process management. We illustrate a set of guide lines to determine how to apply linear defeasible logic to those context

    Free choice permission in defeasible deontic logic

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    Free Choice Permission is one of the challenges for the formalisation of norms. In this paper, we follow a novel approach that accepts Free Choice Permission in a restricted form. The intuition behind the guarded form is strongly aligned with the idea of defeasibility. Accordingly, we investigate how to model the guarded form in Defeasible Deontic Logic extended with disjunctive permissions

    Principles and Semantics: Modelling Violations for Normative Reasoning

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    The present paper proposes a structural operational semantics and the related semantics for normative systems. The proposed approach focuses on explicitly representing in force obligations and violations as events in a temporal framework, determining the state of a normative system. In the paper we use a set of core principles, defining some of the properties required when reasoning about norms, to motivate the semantics of the approach. Finally, we show that the proposed approach is capable of reasoning about more complex legal scenarios

    Inference to the Stable Explanations

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    The process of explaining a piece of evidence by constructing a set of assumptions that are a good explanation for that evidence is ubiquitous in real-life (e.g. in legal systems). In this paper, we introduce, discuss, and formalise the notion of stable explanations in a non-monotonic setting. We show how, while applying it to the process of (1) computing a set of literals able to (2) derive a conclusion (3) from a set of defeasible rules, we obtain a restricted version of the notion of abduction. This is both interesting and useful: when an explanation for a given conclusion is stable, it can, in fact, be used to infer the same conclusion independently of other pieces of evidence that are found afterwards

    Modelling legal knowledge for GDPR compliance checking

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    In the last fifteen years, Semantic Web technologies have been successfully applied to the legal domain. By composing all those techniques and theoretical methods, we propose an integrated framework for modelling legal documents and legal knowledge to support legal reasoning, in particular checking compliance. This paper presents a proof-of-concept applied to the GDPR domain, with the aim to detect infringements of privacy compulsory norms or to prevent possible violations using BPMN and Regorous engine

    Modelling dialogues for optimal legislation

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    This paper presents a framework for modelling legislative deliberation in the form of dialogues. Roughly, in legislative dialogues coalitions can dynamically change and propose rule-based theories associated with different utility functions, depending on the legislative theory the coalitions are trying to determine
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