System = program + users + law

  • Authors:
  • N. H. Minsky;D. Rozenshtein

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ;Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '87 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This paper is based on a new approach for dealing with large scale software systems. This approach is based on the concept of a Law-Governed System, which is a tripleprogram, users, lawwhere the law is an explicit and strictly enforced set of rules about the structure and operation of the program, and about the evolution of the entire system.We describe Darwin, a skeleton of a programming environment that supports our notion of law-governed systems. Darwin is based on the object-oriented programming paradigm and uses logic programming to express and enforce the law.