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Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 8

Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

Modeling conflicts between legal rules

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2016F272

Citation: Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 8, pages 393–402 ()

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Abstract. The main aim of this work is to formalize the mechanism of resolving conflicts between statutory legal rules with a view to implementing them into a legal advisory system. The model is build on the basis of the ASPIC+ argument modeling framework. The paper presents a discussion and a formal model of the mechanism of conflict recognition as well as models of three different mechanisms of conflict solving and a discussion of the relations between them.

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