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D1.1 – First Year Annual Report

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This project has received funding fromEuropean Union’s Justice programme

2014-2020, under grant agreement No.766463

Deliverable D1.1 First Year Annual Report

Work Package WP1: Management and Coordination of the Project

CREA Project

Grant Agreement No. 766463

Justice programme 2014-2020

Call: JUST-AG-2016-05

Start date of the project: 1 October 2017

Duration of the project: 24 months

Ref. Ares(2018)5000495 - 30/09/2018


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This report has been produced with the financial support of the Justice Programme of the

European Union. The contents of this report are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no

way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission.

The CREA consortium consists of the following partners.

No. Name Short Name Country

1 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II UNINA IT

2 UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI LJUBLJANA SI

3 LIBERA UNIVERSITA INTERNAZIONALE DEGLI STUDI SOCIALI GUIDO CARLI

LUISS IT

4 VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS VILNIUS LT

5 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL VUB BE

6 ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON

ATHENS GR

7 SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU – PRAVNI FAKULTET ZAGREB HR

8 ETABLISSEMENT D’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR CONSULAIRE HAUTES ETUDES COMMERCIALES DE PARIS

HEC FR

9 CONSIGLIO DELL’ORDINE DEGLI AVVOCATI DI ROMA COA IT

10 ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DIFESA CONSUMATORI ED AMBIENTE

ADICONSUM IT

11 UNION DES AVOCATS EUROPEENS UAE LU


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Document History

Version Date Status Authors, Reviewers Description

v 0.02 13.09.2018 Draft A: Francesco Romeo – Fabrizio Corona

First review of the contents

v.0.03 24.09.2018 Draft A: Francesco Romeo –- Fabrizio Corona – Fiammetta Marulli

Internal review comments and feedback.

v.0.04 26.09.2018 Draft A: Francesco Romeo – Marco Dall’Aglio - Fabrizio Corona


v.0.05 26.09.2018 Draft A: Francesco Romeo – Francesco Avolio - Fabrizio Corona


v 0.50 26.09.2018 Draft A: Francesco Romeo – Fabrizio Corona


v 1.00 29.09.2018 Final A:Francesco Romeo – Fabrizio Corona

Final document for submission.

COVER PAGE


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PROJECT

Project number: (766463)

Title: Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms

Acronym: CREA

Coordinator contact: Prof. Francesco Romeo – UNINA

Starting date: 01/10/2017

Duration: 12

Project website: http://www.crea-project.eu/

PERIOD COVERED

Period (from last periodic report): from 01/10/2017 to 01/10/2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. DELIVERABLES, MILESTONES & CRITICAL RISKS .................................................................................................. 5 2. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................... 6 3. BUDGET CONSUMPTION ........................................................................................................................................... 15 ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16


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1. DELIVERABLES, MILESTONES & CRITICAL RISKS

Deliverables, milestones & critical risks YES/NO

We confirm that we updated the following PP/SyGMa Continuous Reporting screens:

Deliverables

Milestones

Critical risks

YES


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2. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES

WORK PACKAGES

Work package 1

Work package 1: Management and Coordination of the project

Milestones & deliverables

Report on the implementation status of the milestones and deliverables that were due during the period and explain deviations from the description of the action (DoA) in Annex 1 GA.

Ensure consistency with the SyGMa Milestones and Deliverables screens.

Milestone number (numbering SygMa)

Milestone name Achieved? (Yes/No)

Justification (explain what was done and by whom; explain what was not done and why not; indicate new timing)

MS1 Kick-off meeting YES On Monday 30 October 2017, at LUISS University there was the kick-off meeting. The meeting was coordinated by UNINA. The participant were: Francesco Romeo, Unina, Marco Giacalone, VUB, Tatiana Josipovic, Zagreb University, Milda Markeviciute, Vilnius University, Kostantinos Papageorgiou, Athens University, Paola Pendenza, Adiconsum, Marco Dall’Aglio, LUISS, Daniela Di Cagno, LUISS, Silvio Martuccelli, LUISS, Roberto Carleo, LUISS, Franco Trubiani, LUISS, Francisco Facchinei, LUISS, Giuseppe Contissa, Fabrizio Corona, UNINA. Partecipant via skype were: Katarina Zajc, Univerza V Ljubljani, Matteo Winkler, HEC Paris, Rimantas Simaitis, Vilnaus Universitetas, Francesco Avolio, UAE, Adriano Maffeo, UNINA –, Flora Amato, UNINA and Valentina Capasso, UNINA.

During the kick off meeting, the partners discussed the following points:

- the Commission’s expectations and questions to the project officer. The partners asked the Project Officer three questions: Should we use a prefixed template provided by the Project Officer for our presentations? Should we use a specific mention to the grant in our published articles? Could we revise the budget, moving the indirect costs up to 7%?


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- The common work in the CREA project. During this phase, Professor Dall’Aglio explains the functions of “adjusted winner”, algorithm patented by Brams and Taylor, in order to reach an easy solution to disputes, and other algorithms which could be also used. He specifies that it’s fundamental to create an European common legal ground in order to apply algorithms to every kind of case.

- Discussion on the organization and partecipation in the events related to the project: during this phase, Prof. Romeo proposes to participate in a conference in Frankfurt about Artificial Intelligence in 2018 and in Salzburg about Legal Informatics in 2018 and 2019; Professor Amato proposes to participate to A.I.N.A. (Advanced Information Networking and Association), an important annual conference about Engineering; Professor Dall’Aglio talks about game theories conferences, that will be held in July in Finland. Miss. Paola Pendenza proposes to participate to European Consumers Center, a very relevant conference about consumers issues.

- Adoption of consortium agreement: Doctor Giuseppe Contissa, from UNINA, describes Consortium Agreement, that has to contain additional internal rules for the partners. First of all, it’s right and proper to specify intellectual properties rights, if some partners introduce their own works to help the development of the project.

Deliverable number (numbering SyGMa)

Deliverable name Achieved? (Yes/No)


D1.1 First Year Annual Report YES This report describes all activities carried out in the 12 months. The deadline is 30 September 2018.

D1.4 Project Website YES UNINA has coordinated the activity of creating the website with many meeting. The meetings were composed by Prof. Francesco Romeo, Prof. Flora Amato, Dr. Fabrizio Corona, Dr. Giuseppe Lisella, Dr. Franco Trubiani, Dr. Francesco Giuseppe Sacco and Dr. Giovanni Di Stasio.

In the first phase of the project, UNINA has created the website. In the website are some information about partners and events. In the website there is the archive of the news. The publication of relevant news to raise awareness and increase the level of information, and it is targeted both for general public and for specialized audience.

In the second phase of the project, the website will be used to host dissemination materials such as videos and leaflets. In addition the website is also going to include the CREA algorithm to resolve the online dispute resolution.

Some specific sections of the websites will be dedicated to:

Discussion area with experts that are actively involved in research on these topics (both law and mathematic) but not directly involved in the project;

Discussion and information sharing with citizens and general public.


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D1.5 Dissemination Plan YES UNINA has coordinated the dissemination plan. The dissemination plan on CREA Project has been drafted during the kick off meeting in Rome. The dissemination plan is divided into 7 parts:

1) Participation in Conferences; 2) Promotion and dissemination activities Adiconsum; 3) Promotion and dissemination activities COA Roma 4) Promotion and dissemination activities The European Lawyers’ Union; 5) The CREA Conferences; 6) Online dissemination 7) Media dissemination.

In the first phase of the project, the participation in conferences and events was mainly targeted to

advertise the CREA project and discuss with the scientific community to avoid mistakes and

optimize results.

in the first year the partners participated in these events:

a) IRIS (International Legal Informatics Symposium) - Prof. Francesco Romeo, Prof.

Marco Dall’Aglio and Dr. Marco Giacalone presenting the paper “CREA Project – Conflict

resolution with equitative algorithms”.

(The International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS: Internationales Rechtsinformatik

Symposion) is a conference, which is held annually at the Law Faculty of the University of

Salzburg. At its 21st edition, IRIS is recognized as one of the most important academic

conferences on computers and law in Europe, and by far the most important in the

German speaking countries. In this edition, which took place from 22nd to 24th of

February 2018, the leading topics were Data Protection and Legal Tech; in this regard, in

the domain of “legal information systems”, Prof. Francesco Romeo, Prof. Marco Dall’

Aglio and PhD. Marco Giacalone, presented the CREA Project – Conflict Resolution

Equitative Algorithm, through a contribution.)

b) Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) – “Le buone pratiche in materia di

mediazione extra ed endoprocessuale” Prof. Francesco Romeo and Dr. Marco

Giacalone participate in the meeting and present the CREA Project.

(This is one of the most important national conference for lawyers, mediators and judges.

It is one of the most prestigious conferences in mediation.)

c) XVI Stage di Diritto dell’Unione Europea Andrea Cafiero - Dr.Marco Giacalone

presenting the paper: “CREA Project”

(This is one of the most important national conference for lawyers. It’s one of the most

prestigious conferences in European Union Law in Italy.)

d) Foundation and utility risk conference 2018 at york. - Prof. Daniela Di Cagno


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presenting the paper “Telling the other what one knows? Strategic lying in acquiring a

company experiments with two-sided private information”

(The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference (FUR) is an interdisciplinary conference

bringing together decision theorists, behavioural scientists, economists, psychologists,

mathematicians, management scientists, medical and health scientists, philosophers,

statisticians, and other researchers. Currently, it is one of the most prestigious

conferences in behavioural science. FUR traditionally covers a wide range of areas

including decision theory, behavioural game theory, models of stochastic choice,

behavioural/experimental economics and psychology, judgement and decision making,

social psychology, neuroscience, to name a few.)

e) 29th EURO Conference (EU Operations Research society) - Prof. Marco Dall’Aglio

presenting the CREA project during the meeting

(EURO 2018 is the largest and most important conference for Operational Research and

Management Science (OR/MS) in Europe organized by EURO – the European

Association of Operational Research Society and the Spanish Statistics and Operations

Research Society. It is held by the two major Valencian universities, Universitat de

València and Universitat Politècnica de València.)

f) 14th SING conference (European Meeting on Game Theory) - Prof. Marco Dall’Aglio

presenting the CREA project during the meeting

(The conference is organized by the Professorship of Economics IG of the University of

Bayreuth. It is the 14th European (formerly Spain-Italy-Netherlands) Meeting on Game

Theory (SING14). The organisers welcome contributions from all areas of game theory,

including, but not limited to: Cooperative games and their applications; Mechanism

design;Networks; Dynamic games;Evolutionary game; Stochastic games; Voting and

power indices; Auctions; Bargaining; Learning and experimentation in game theory;

Computational game theory; Game theory applications in fields such as: management,

energy, health policy, industrial organisation, and others)

g) “Campione d'Italia”, Game Theory and Rationing, Lake Como School for advanced

studies - Prof. Marco Dall’Aglio is the Scientific coordinators and presenting the CREA

project during the meeting

(The aim of the school is to present the theoretical basis and some applied results for a

game theoretical approach to the problem of sharing a resource among different agents.

It is oriented to PhD students, post-doc, and young scholars. It has a distinguished

interdisciplinary flavour, with speakers whose experiences come from Mathematics,

Economics, and Computer Science. It is organized in order to provide incentives for direct

contacts among the participants; the lectures will be delivered in the morning and the rest

of the day will be devoted to informal talks and discussions also with the speakers.)

h) 42nd Annual Meeting of the AMASES - Prof. Marco Dall’Aglio presenting the CREA

project during the meeting


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(The meeting is organized with the support of the Department of Management and

Quantitative Studies of Parthenope University of Napoli and the collaboration of the

Department of Economics and Statistics and the Department of Mathematics and

Applications of the University of Napoli Federico II. As in the AMASES established

tradition, the purpose of the meeting is to stimulate discussion among scholars and

practitioners from Italy and all around the world, on different aspects of Mathematics

applied to Economic and Social Sciences. The scientific program consists of plenary talks

and presentations in parallel sessions of contributed papers on Financial Mathematics,

Decision Theory, Mathematics for Economics, Actuarial Mathematics, Game Theory,

Optimization and Mathematical Economics.

i) The 21st International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-

2018) - Prof. Flora Amato, Prof. Giovanni Cozzolino, Prof. Francesco Romeo, Prof.

Francesco Moscato, Dr. Antonino Mazzeo and Dr. Marco Giacalone presenting the paper

“Overview of Digital Forensic Tool for DataBase Analysis”.

(The main objective of NBiS is to bring together researchers from both network systems

and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and

experience between these two communities. The NBiS-2018 seeks original contributions

in all relevant areas, including but not limited to the following topics: communication

Networks and Protocols; Databases and Data Mining; Cloud, Grid and P2P Computing;

Semantic Web and Internet Applications; Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

Applications; Multimedia Systems and Applications; Mobile and Wireless Networks;

Network Security and Privacy; Social Networks; Energy Efficient Networks and Green IT;

Intelligent Computing and Networking; Parallel Computing and Multicore Systems; Sensor

Network.)

Other issues

Work package 2

Work package 2: Legal





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D2.1 Report on Regulatory framework YES UNINA has coordinated the Report on Regulatory Framework (lead beneficiary is VUB). The deliverable is divided in a few sections:

1) Introduction regarding EU legal system related to ADR and ODR: Directive 2008/52/EC, Directive 2013/11/UE and Regulation 524/2013.

2) Suggestion of 3 civil law sectors by each law unit involved in CREA project, with presence of assignment of goods, where is it possible to operate with Mediation or Negotiation (following the above EU Directives and Regulations) through our economic algorithms.

3) Questionnaires answered by LJUBLJANA, LUISS, VILNIUS, VUB, ATHENS, ZAGREB, HEC.

All partners delivered the questionnaire on time

D2.2 Report on the civil sector chosen YES UNINA has coordinated the Report on Regulatory Framework (lead beneficiary is VUB). On 27th

September all partners answered questionnaire. The deadline is 30 September 2018

Other issues

Work package 3

Work package 3: Analytical-Cognitive-Experimental




D3.1 Report on State of the art YES Unina and LUISS have coordinated the Report on State of art of the Game. This report examine the most recent result but focus our attention to a small area of research: results regarding the problem of allocating several objects (also referred to as items, goods) to a finite number of persons, usually referred to as agents or players.

The report pointed out that some procedures are mature enough to guarantee a reasonable degree of success in the legal context. We refer for instance to the celebrated Adjusted Winner procedure. Some others are very recent, but their strong theoretical grounds look promising enough to continue their exploration in the forthcoming months with a perspective of applications in the legal context. We refer to the following classes of procedures:


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Procedures in which contenders (also denoted as players or agents) express a ranking of the contested items and these items are indivisible. These procedures include the AL procedure, the Undercut procedure, the Trump rule, the SD and ISD procedures for two agents with ordinal preferences and indivisible goods. This is the simplest setting since contenders are only required to state what is the most valuable item for them, then the second best, and so on.

Procedures in which contenders allocate points to the items that can be divisible or indivisible. These procedures include the Adjusted Winner, with some of its recent extensions, and the Nash Product Maximizer Rule for any number of agents.

Procedures in which contenders allocate indivisible items and money among themselves. This is obtained by asking each contender to provide a personal monetary evaluation

D3.2 Report on the adaptation of existing procedures

YES Unina and LUISS have coordinated Report on the adaptation of existing procedures. In this report, LUISS analysed methods to find the best instruments to help the legal specialists and the parts involved in any (amicable or formal) dispute.

The sector of research, in agreement with the parnters are:

1) Inheritance (issues involving division of assets; 2) Divorce ( issues involving division of assets 3) Company law ( issues involving value of the shares of the companies).

Other issues


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Timetable

Report on deviations from the description of the action (DoA) in Annex 1 GA.

Fill in the planned implementation in beige and the deviations in red. Repeat lines/columns as necessary.

ACTIVITY

MONTHS

M 1

M 2

M 3

M 4

M 5

M 6

M 7

M 8

M 9

M 10

M 11

M 12

M 13

M 14

M 15

M 16

M 17

M 18

M 19

M 20

M 21

M 22

M 23

M 24

D1.1 First Year annual report

D1.4 Project Website

D1.5 Dissemination Plan

D2.1 Report on Regulatory Framework

D2.3 Report on the civil sector chosen

D.3.1 Report on State of the Art


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D3.2 Report on the adaptation of existing procedures


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3. BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION

Budget implementation — Use of resources YES/NO

We confirm that the overall budget consumption is in line with the advancement of the activities.

If there are major deviations, identify them and explain the reasons why.

YES

Indicate the amounts spent by the consortium on each budget category since the beginning of the project.

Budget category Total amount (EUR)

A. Direct personnel costs 141.464,94

B.1 Direct travel costs 4.822,52

B.2 Direct subsistence costs 2.164,91

C. Direct subcontracting costs 0

D. Direct costs of financial support to third parties Not applicable

E. Other direct costs 5.427,64


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ANNEXES

LIST OF ANNEXES

Number Title Lead Beneficiary Approval

status

MS1 Kick-off Meeting UNINA approved

D1.1 First Year Annual

Report UNINA

Deadline 30

September

2018

D1.4 Project Website UNINA approved

D2.1 Report on Regulatory

framework VUB approved

D2.2 Report on the civil

sector chosen VUB

Deadline 30

September

2018

D3.1 Report on State of the

Art LUISS RM approved

D1.5 Dissemination Plan UNINA approved

D3.2

Report on the

adaptation of existing

procedures

UNINA

approved

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