Modeling the Automating Process of the Creation, Checking and Updating Texts of Contracts

Abstract

Purpose of research. Is to increase the degree of automation of contractual relations legal support of the parties as in the case of publishing activities through the development of model-algorithmic control and software for the automated creation and updating of texts of publisher-author license agreements.Methods. When analyzing the processes of automating legal activities in relation to the creation, development and updating texts of contracts, Russian and foreign technologies and software that allow automating the processes of contractual activities have been considered. Conceptual and set-theoretics models of the process of automated building texts of contracts have been proposed.Results. An original classification of tasks and ways of automating the legal activities including a list of promising information technologies have been proposed. Conceptual and set-theoretics models of the process of automated building texts of contracts have been developed; they differ in the use of a set of public acts, information resources, and expert information available as sources of information to create the necessary document in the selected subject area based on the algorithm of data verification, generation, visualization, contract updating, which provide contract creation and updating in an automated mode. An algorithmic model for automated processing of contract parameters which differs in the distribution of tasks between experts (a lawyer, a programmer) and software tools at has been developed. The main stages of the document life cycle involve creating, updating, deleting a contract, which, based on the event model, checks for updates in public acts and automatically corrects the text values of the parameter of the contract. The proposed solutions have been tested in case of a license agreement between an author of the article and the publishing house issuing Informatics and Automation journal.Conclusion. The development of model-algorithmic control and software for processing text information available from public acts, information resources provided by representatives of subject areas necessary for the automated generation, verification, and visualization of individual acts contributes to an increase in the degree of automation, reduces the time of preparation of legal documents that meet the requirements of existing public acts. Means of automating contractual activities should be built on the principle of openness, be dynamic, and also be externally controlled. The software services of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the automation of legal activities developed within the framework of this study are available at http://legaltech.viwo.ru/.