Print Email Facebook Twitter When do rule changes count-as legal rule changes? Title When do rule changes count-as legal rule changes? Author King, T.W. (TU Delft Aerodynamics) Dignum, M.V. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Jonker, C.M. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence) Date 2016 Abstract Institutions regulate societies. Comprising Searle's constitutive counts-as rules, "A counts-as B in context C", an institution ascribes from brute and institutional facts (As), a social reality comprising institutional facts (Bs) conditional on the social reality (contexts Cs). When brute facts change an institution evolves from one social reality to the next. Rule changes are also regulated by rule-modifying counts-as rules ascribing rule change in the past/present/future (e.g. a majority rule change vote counts-as a rule change). Determining rule change legality is difficult, since changing counts-as rules both alters and is conditional on the social reality, and in some cases hypothetical rule-change effects (e.g. not retroactively criminalising people). However, without a rigorous account of rule change ascriptions, AI agents cannot support humans in understanding the laws imposed on them. Moreover, advances in automated governance design for socio-technical systems, are limited by agents' ability to understand how and when to enact institutional changes. Consequently, we answer "when do rule changes count-as legal rule changes?" in a temporal setting with a novel formal framework. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fe07c83b-ced1-4934-95b6-2b781919cadb DOI https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-3 Publisher IOS Press ISBN 9781614996712 Source Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2016, 285 Event ECAI 2016, 2016-08-29 → 2016-09-02, World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 09226389, 285 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 T.W. King, M.V. Dignum, C.M. Jonker Files PDF FAIA285_0003.pdf 439.14 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fe07c83b-ced1-4934-95b6-2b781919cadb/datastream/OBJ/view