A factor-based approach to case-based reasoning has been successfully applied in the field of AI and Law to model legal arguments in adversarial judicial procedures. In this paper, we discuss how factors and dimensions can be applied in a disputesupport system that aims to reconcile inconsistent interests of the parties for the sake of a higher-order value, that is, the well being of a child.
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The paper presents a model of teleological interpretation of statutory legal rules as well as an example of the genuine law case, which has been modeled with use of established methodology.
This paper evaluates the Parenting Plan Support System, a partially implemented decision support system designed to help parents to draft an agreement concerning relations with their children after the divorce, against the background of a real-life case. The focus here is on knowledge representation issues and the functioning of the inference engine.
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The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper provides commentaries on landmark papers from the first decade of that journal. The topics discussed include reasoning with cases, argumentation, normative reasoning, dialogue, representing legal knowledge and neural networks.
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