Design and implementation of a forecasting tool of justice chains

  • Authors:

  • Debora Moolenaar;Sunil Choenni;Frans Leeuw

  • Affiliations:

  • Research & Documentation Centre (WODC), The Netherlands;Research & Documentation Centre (WODC), The Netherlands and University of Twente, The Netherlands;Research & Documentation Centre (WODC), The Netherlands and Maastricht University, Fac. of Law, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • LawTech '07 Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A reliable estimation of the capacity required for the Dutch justice chains in the near future is inevitable to implement a policy that is capable to handle forthcoming judicial cases in a society. To come up with reliable estimations, an understanding of the vital processes in the justice chains is required. However, the Dutch justice chains are complex with many more or less independent organisations. Therefore capturing the vital processes in a model is a challenging task. Research has pointed out that many variables are involved in these processes. Consequently, our model of the Dutch justice chain resulted in a large set of equations and variables. However, such a model is necessary for the prediction of the required capacity in the near future. Since the impact of a variable may evolve over time, this means that the model of the Dutch justice chains needs to be maintained. Otherwise, the model may result in poor prediction. Maintaining such a model manually is at best a laborious and error-prone process. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the design and implementation of a forecasting tool that is easy to maintain and that will help forecasters to reduce their workload and improve their forecasts.