In this paper we offer a formal account of reasoning with legal cases in terms of argumentation schemes. These schemes, and undercutting attacks associated with them, are formalised as defeasible rules of inference within the ASPIC+ framework. We begin by modelling the style of reasoning with cases developed by Aleven and Ashley in the CATO project, which describes cases using factors, and then...

The paper examines whether integrated area development projects are particularly well placed to recognize the complexity and diversity of gender relations and provide important space for gender sensitive planning and practice. It recounts the case of the Cato Manor project in Durban, South Africa where, despite no explicit focus on gender in design, practices were remarkably consistent with the...

The Dutch CATO CCS research community has established an implementation plan for CCS in the Netherlands including a CATO CCS roadmap. The roadmap comprises 26 actions which need to be implemented within the next ten years. The actions address five different CCS themes or issues which need to be covered to successfully implement large-scale CCS. The roadmap has been established in close cooperat...

ion hierarchies can be used in a straightforward way to compute the similarity of corresponding case features [Kolodner, 1993, p. 346-7]. To assess the degree of similarity of two different values, one finds their most specific common ancestor in the hierarchy (“MSCA”). The similarity of two cases can then be computed by converting the MSCAs for each shared feature to a numerical score (perhaps...