Precedent-Based Reasoning with Incomplete Cases

Daphne Odekerken; Floris Bex; Henry Prakken

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Precedent-Based Reasoning with Incomplete Cases

Daphne Odekerken, Floris Bex, Henry Prakken

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We extend the result model for precedent-based reasoning with incomplete case bases. In contrast to regular case bases, these consist of incomplete cases for which not all dimension values need to be specified, but rather each dimension is assigned a set of possible values. The outcome of cases then applies for each (combination of) the possible dimension values. Building on earlier proposed notions of justification and stability for incomplete focus cases, we introduce the notion of possible justification statuses, which are required to maintain consistency of the incomplete case base. We demonstrate how these theoretic notions can be applied in practice for human-in-the-loop decision support, discuss their computational complexity and provide efficient algorithms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of Jurix 2023
Editors	Giovanni Sileno, Jerry Spanakis, Gijs van Dijck
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	33-42
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-64368-473-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-64368-472-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230943
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Publisher	IOS Press
Volume	379
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8314

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precedential constraint
incomplete cases

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Precedent-Based Reasoning with Incomplete Cases. / Odekerken, Daphne ; Bex, Floris ; Prakken, Henry.
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: Proceedings of Jurix 2023. ed. / Giovanni Sileno; Jerry Spanakis; Gijs van Dijck. IOS Press, 2023. p. 33-42 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 379).

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