Dr. Thomas F. Gordon is a computer scientist and lawyer at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, where he conducts research on argumentation technology and related topics, including artificial intelligence and law, legal rule-based systems, legal informatics and computational models of legal argumentation. The goal of this research is to provide software tools for governance tasks in the policy life cycle: agenda setting, analysis, policy development and legislation, implementation (including administrative rulemaking and electronic service delivery), and monitoring.

Example applications include:
• rule-based and other kinds of legal knowledge systems for managing and applying complex legislation and regulations
• regulatory compliance systems, e.g. in the field of IT compliance
• "intelligent forms" for helping citizens and businesses to apply for governmental benefits and services on the web
• policy modeling and legislative support systems for drafting and analyzing policies, laws and regulations
• systems for constructing ("inventing"), structuring, evaluating and visualizing arguments
• document assembly systems for supporting the drafting of legal documents
• mediation systems for online dispute resolution, eParticipation and deliberative eDemocracy

Contact
Dr. Thomas F. Gordon
ELAN Competence Center for eGovernment
Fraunhofer FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin, Germany
+49 (0)30 3463 7219
thomas.gordon(at)fokus.fraunhofer.de

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