Abstract
Information about the case to be decided rarely is complete and precise. So dealing with imprecise information definitely is one of the major issues of legal decision making. In order to be able to identify a non-empty set of precedents most similar to our case, we introduce the Dempster-Shafer rule for combining information from independent sources and use the resulting mass functions to determine the importance of each precedent in our knowledge system. Additionally, the method is illustrated by an example.
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de Korvin, A., Quirchmayr, G., Hashemi, S. (1994). Identifying precedents under uncertainty. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_196
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