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Agent-Based Modelling: A New Tool for Legal Requirements Engineering: Introduction and Use Case (KEI)
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Abstract Foundational assumptions under legal systems come adrift with innovation in non-law disciplines. In an effort towards improved understanding of what is going on (and what can be done) we turn to agent-based modeling as a tool. We use the KEI project for our use case, apply Holland’s ECHO framework a... view more
Foundational assumptions under legal systems come adrift with innovation in non-law disciplines. In an effort towards improved understanding of what is going on (and what can be done) we turn to agent-based modeling as a tool. We use the KEI project for our use case, apply Holland’s ECHO framework as legal requirements engineering tool and use NetLogo as platform for implementation (resulting in an application we call Epiframer). We study parameter-change induced behavioral dynamics in the resulting artificial society. Findings are in two tiers: (i) on the role of the law in a multi-force field and (ii) on the role of institutions (also: sibling disciplines) for informing specialist legal professionals. We submit epiframer’s assumptions for diverse-disciplinary scrutiny as a closure. We have not yet reached a level that warrants the deployment of statistical learning methods onto data provided by simulation runs and are aware that such an approach has - where legal requirements engineering events tend to be sparsely punctuated - limited added value for legal requirements engineering situations anyway. With De Marchi (2005) our claim is that under such conditions computational, mathematical and, indeed, qualitative methods have complementary uses.... view less
Keywords
legal usage; lawsuit; judiciary; communication technology; digitalization; efficiency; model
Classification
Judiciary
Free Keywords
Agent-based modeling; ECHO; innovating legal practice; KEI; legal requirements engineering; disciplinary consultation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 1-21
Journal
European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 8 (2019) 1
Issue topic
Legal Requirements Engineering
ISSN
2285-4916
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0