Towards the Reconstruction of the Evolutionary Behaviour of Finite State Machines in the Juridical Domain

Juridical systems are inherently complex, since they address numerous and critical processes that are regulated by several laws and regulations. Furthermore, such regulations change with more or less frequency, thus provoking the evolution of the entire Juridical system. In order to adequately regulate a sophisticated system, it is imperative to establish and utilize models as well as to monitor the system’s progression. In this paper, historical logs of Trials are used to build model that can be used to keep track of the regulation changes, and their effect on the Juridical system, through the years. In particular, the formalism provided by Finite State Machines will be used to represent the information extracted from the logs, and to provide a homogeneous model.