Since the adoption of the e-Commerce Directive, web hosting has dramatically changed. User generated content is usually uploaded into platforms that facilitate and support users in preparing content and making it available. Such platforms are run in most cases by commercial companies who make...

This contribution introduces a novel approach to study legal interactions, legal professions, and legal institutions, by combining argumentation, game theory and evolution. We consider a population of lawyers, having different postures, who engage in adversarial argumentation with other lawyers,...

This paper provides a game-theoretical investigation on how to determine optimal strategies in dialogue games for argumentation. To make our ideas as widely applicable as possible, we adopt an abstract dialectical setting and model dialogues as extensive games with perfect information where...

In this paper I shall consider certain aspects of the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation recently advanced by the EU Commission, which is meant to substitute the existing Data Protection Directive as well as the national laws implementing it. In particular I shall examine how the...

We shall first introduce some technical aspects involved in the use of AI in producing new intellectual works, distinguishing approaches based on knowledge representation and on machine learning. Then we shall provide an overview of some of the significant applications of AI to the production of...

The principles of transparency and explainability are landmarks of the current EU approach to artificial intelligence. Both are invoked in the policy guidelines as values governing algorithmic decision-making, while providing rationales for existing normative provisions, on information duties,...