Call for Papers - JURIX 2013 - Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

The 26th International Conference on
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

University of Bologna (Italy), 11th-13thDecember 2013
http://conference.jurix.nl/2013

Entering a second quarter century of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2013 JURIX conference will take place at the University of Bologna. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of
  legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information and eDiscovery;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web, including legal open data;
• XML standards for legal documents and rules,
  including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is September 2nd, 2013. Papers should be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2013

using PDF, or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at theIOS Press site under Authors at “LaTex and Word tools for book authors”.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisher’s criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings.

As in past years, our intention is for the conference proceedings to be published by IOS Press(Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications before the Conference.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Program Chair by email. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, includingSCRIPTed.

*** NEW in JURIX 2013 ***This year for the first time, the Jurix conference will feature a Doctoral Consortium. It will provide graduate students an opportunity to publish short papers and to present posters about their research and to receive feedback and encouragement from the AI and Law community. Further details will be provided later this summer.

Programme Committee

• Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
• Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
• Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
• Floris Bex, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA
• Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, The Netherlands
• Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy
• Anne Gardner, Atherton, California, USA
• Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
• Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
• Hans Henseler, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
• Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Jeroen Keppens, King’s College London, United Kingdom
• Thorne McCarthy, Rutgers University, USA
• Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
• Radim Polčák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Henry Prakken, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
• Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Florence – CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
• Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
• Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
• Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Bart Verheij, Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
• Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA
• Douglas N. Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
• Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
• Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK
• John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Program ChairKevin Ashley,University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
ashley@pitt.edu

Local Organisation ChairsMonica Palmirani,CIRSFID, Faculty of Law,
University of Bologna, Italy.
monica.palmirani@unibo.it

Antonino Rotolo,CIRSFID, Faculty of Law,
University of Bologna, Italy.
antonino.rotolo@unibo.it

Important Dates:

• September 2nd Extension: September 9th, 2013 Deadline for submission of papers
• September 30th, 2013 Notification of acceptance
• October 7th, 2013 Final, camera-ready copies required
• September 16th, 2013 Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials
• December 12th-13th, 2013 Main Conference
• December 11th, 2013 Workshops/Tutorials

The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (www.jurix.nl).

22. EDV Gerichtstag vom 25. - 27. September in Saarbrücken

Ich freue mich auch interessante Eindrücke und Diskussionen. 

"Vom 25.09 bis zum 27.09.2013 tagt der Fachkongress zum 22. Mal an der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken.

Unter dem Motto „Vom elektronischen Rechtsverkehr zur elektronischen Justiz?“ werden in den Arbeitskreisen unter anderem folgende Themen diskutiert.

• Wie wird aus dem eJustice-Gesetz Realität?
• Juristische Lernprogramme
• Adäquate Elektronische Kommunikation in Justiz und Verwaltung
• eID – Die elektronische Identitätsfunktion des neuen Personalausweises
       - Möglichkeit zur Modernisierung von Verwaltungs- und Justizprozessen -
• „Bring Your Own Device“ und die damit verbundenen Fragen
• Cybersecurity – mobile IT-Forensik
• Freie juristische Internetprojekte

Wie bereits im vergangenen Jahr wird am Mittwoch, 25.09.2013 von 14.00- 16.00 Uhr ein Hacker Camp mit praktischen Demonstrationen zur IT-Sicherheit stattfinden. Im Anschluss besteht für die Kongressteilnehmer, die Gelegenheit sich im Rahmen von offenen Arbeitskreisen mit eigenen Themenbeiträgen zu beteiligen.

Traditionell ist der Mittwochabend mit dem "Get together" in den Räumen der juris GmbH ausgeklungen.

In den vier Arbeitskreisen der Bund-Länder-Kommission für Rationalisierung und Datenverarbeitung informieren die Bundesländer über den derzeitigen Stand von IT-Projekten in der Justiz.

Auch in diesem Jahr wird der Dieter-Meurer-Förderpreis für eine herausragende innovative Arbeit gemeinsam mit der juris GmbH verliehen.

Begleitend zur Tagung gibt die Unternehmensausstellung einen Überblick über IT-Lösungen für die Justiz, Anwaltssoftware, allgemeine juristische Programme, elektronische Datenbanken, Sicherheitssoftware und Literatur.

Gastland werden in diesem Jahr die Niederlanden sein.

Kontakt:Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag e.V.
Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Herberger,
Universität des Saarlandes, Gebäude A 5.4,
66123 Saarbrücken,
Tel. 0681 302 5511, Fax 0681 302 2591
E-Mail edvgt@jura.uni-sb.de"

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ICAIL 2013 - Call for papers

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Under the Auspices of the Senate of the Italian Republic

14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law
(ICAIL 2013)
June 10-June 14, 2013
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(National Research Council of Italy)
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it

Sponsored by:

The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
ITTIG-CNR (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the CNR)

Call for Papers, Workshops and Demonstrations

The field of AI and Law is concerned with:

• the study of legal reasoning using computational methods
• the study of AI and other advanced information technologies, using law as an example domain
• formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
• legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced information technologies

The ICAIL conference is the primary international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, and has been organized biennially since 1987 under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications; it fosters interdisciplinary and international collaboration. The conference proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers.

ICAIL 2013, the fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, invites the submission of papers on a broad spectrum of research topics. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to

• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
• Computational models of argumentation and decision making
• Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
• Automatic legal text classification and summarization
• Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases
• Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
• E-discovery and e-disclosure
• E-government and e-justice
• Computational models of evidential reasoning
• Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
• Modeling negotiation and contract formation
• Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
• Online dispute resolution
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems

Two tracks: regular papers and innovative applications papers

For ICAIL 2013, authors are invited to submit papers in one of two tracks: regular and innovative applications.  In addition to papers about results and findings from systems, approaches, or theoretical models (in the conference's regular track), we encourage the submission of original papers about innovative applications. Both regular track papers and innovative applications papers will be assessed in a rigorous reviewing procedure. Standard assessment criteria for research papers will apply to all submissions (relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, evaluation, presentation). Papers proposing formal or computational models should provide examples and/or simulations that show the models’ applicability to a realistic legal problem or domain. Papers on innovative applications should describe clearly the motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.

Demonstrations

A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust and practical working applications and tools. Where a demonstration is not connected to a paper in a track, a two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review by the paper submission deadline via the conference management system and following the conference style. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are connected to a paper in the regular track or innovative applications track, no separate statement about the demonstration should be submitted.

ICAIL Workshops and Tutorials

ICAIL 2013 will include workshops and tutorials on the first and last days. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited, and should be sent to the Program Chair. Tutorials should cover a broad topic of relevance to the AI and Law community. Proposals should contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals should be 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information:

• The workshop or tutorial topic and goals, their significance, and their appropriateness for ICAIL 2013
• The intended audience, including the research areas from which participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop
• Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, or other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere) and the expected length (full day or half day)
• Organizers’ details: a description of the main organizers’ backgrounds in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including web pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable).

Mentoring Program for ICAIL 2013

The International Association for AI and Law (IAAIL) will offer a mentoring program for papers being submitted to ICAIL.  The program is intended primarily for junior authors who have not previously published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper at a conference or in a journal. If you would like help with your submission, you may ask for a mentor: a person who will help you with your submission to the IAAIL audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. To request a mentor, please send email to Jack Conrad at Jack.G.Conrad@ThomsonReuters.com by the Mentoring program request deadline. Please include your name and the names of your co-authors; the name of your school/department and institution; a plain-text description of your work (a title and abstract is a minimum requirement); and any specific questions or areas in which you would like help.  For further details about the mentoring program, see http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it/index.php/authormentoring

Important Dates

These dates are tentative and subject to change

• Mentoring program request deadline: November 12, 2012 (revised)
• Mentoring program paper deadline: November 19, 2012 (revised)
• Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 7, 2012
• Submission of abstracts (optional): January 11, 2013
• Submission of papers deadline: January 18, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2013
• Final revised and formatted papers due: April 19, 2013
• Conference: June 10 - June 14, 2013

Submission Details

Papers should not exceed 5000 words. If an approved style file is used, the maximum length is 10 pages. Style format template files can be found athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers should be submitted electronically to the conference support system, https://www.conftool.net/icail2013/, in PDF or MS Word format, by the paper submission deadline.

To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by the above abstract submission deadline. Abstract submissions should also include the paper title, up to four keywords, and a contact address for the principal author.

Both papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically to the conference support system.

Authors will be notified of the referees' decision in March 2013. Papers not accepted for full publication and presentation may be accepted as short research abstracts. Papers (including research abstracts) must be presented at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings. Final versions of papers for publication in the proceedings will be due in April 2013.

Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper

To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or students. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2013. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted, and any nonstudent co-authors should provide a statement that the paper is primarily student work. Notification will be made through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet.

Conference Officials

Program Chair
Bart Verheij
Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen
b.verheij@ai.rug.nl

Conference Chair
Enrico Francesconi
ITTIG - CNR, Florence
francesconi@ittig.cnr.it

Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Gardner
Atherton, California, USA
gardner@cs.stanford.edu

Call for Papers: Jurix 2012

The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
University of Amsterdam,  The Netherlands, 17-19th December 2012

http://conference.jurix.nl/2012

Celebrating 25 years of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2012   JURIX
conference  will return to its roots in  Amsterdam.  We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal
information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agendasetting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is 1 September  2012. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System,

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2012

using PDF or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site under “Book Publishing” in the

“Authors’ Corner”. Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisher’s criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference Proposals for tutorials and workshops

are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer

reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed

using PDF or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at theIOS Press site under “Book Publishing” in the “Authors’ Corner”. Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisher’s criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed

Programme Chair:
Burkhard Schafer,
SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law
University of Edinburgh,  UK.
b.schafer@ed.ac.uk
Local Organisation Chair:
Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid/Faculty of Law
Universiteit van Amsterdam
vanEngers@uva.nl
Conference website:
http://conference.jurix.nl/2012/cfp.html
Important Dates:

• Deadline for submissions of papers: 1. September 2012
• Notification of acceptance: 30th September
• Final, camera-ready copies required by: 5th October 2012
• Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials: 15. September
• Conference: main conference 17-18th  December, workshops 19th December

JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.
Contacts
You can contact us by sending an email to
Burkhard Schafer, B.schafer@ed.ac.uk

Bild stammt von Massimo Catarinella und zeigt einen Radfahrer in Amsterdam

RULEML2011@BRF

* RuleML2011@BRF - 5th International Rule Challenge
* Nov 4th
* Westin Diplomat, Ft Lauderdale, Florida                
* http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=126                      

* Call for Demos - Submission Deadline - Sept. 2nd, 2011
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes
* Demo papers published as CEUR proceedings
* 15% RuleML2011@BRF Partner discounts - see registration page
* http://2011.ruleml.org/america/
* http://www.businessrulesforum.com/register.php


Overview and Aim
======================================================
The RuleML2011@BRF Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML2011@BRF
Conference.The RuleML2011@BRF Challenge is dedicated to practical experiences
with rule-oriented applications. In particular, submissions of benchmarks
/ evaluations, demos, case studies / use cases, experience reports, best
practice solutions (e.g. design patterns, reference architectures, models),
rule-based implementations / tools / applications, demonstrations of
engineering methods, implementations of rule standards (e.g. RuleML, RIF,
SBVR, PRR, rule-based Event Processing languages, BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules,
...), rules + industrial standards (e.g. XBRL, MISMO, Accord, ...), and
industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.

Key themes of the RuleML2011@BRF Challenge include the following:
* Demos related to the RuleML2011@BRF Track Topics
* Extensions and implementations of rule standards: W3C RIF, RuleML,
  SBVR, ...
* Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules
* Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
* Distributed rule bases and rule services
* Reports on industrial experience about rule systems

A dedicated track of RuleML2011@BRF Challenge will be focused on the theme:

**Combining Rules, Objects, and Ontologies: Implementations and Applications**
- Loose/tight integrations of rules and knowledge bases
- Knowledge Modelling and Reasoning
- Real cases and practical experiences

Ideally, demos submitted to the Challenge track should tackle knowledge-rich
domain problems. The proposed solution should address such problem using a
combination of rule-based modelling and semantic knowledge-based modelling.
Solutions ranging from loosely coupled hybrid systems (i.e. where different
frameworks are put together), to unified homogeneous architectures (i.e. where
a unified model / semantics, within a single framework, is proposed) will be
of great interest for the special track.

Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from the main focus theme
and for the all categories. All accepted demos will be presented in a special
Challenge Session.

Submission
======================================================
The submission is composed of two parts:
- open-source or commercial demo
- demo papers describing research, implementation, and technical details of
  your submission.

Submissions to the Rules Challenge 2011 consist of a demo paper of 4-8 pages,
describing the demo show case, and a link to the demo/show case, e.g. a
project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration,
or a download site for the demonstration.

Demo and papers submission website:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011challenge

Please upload all demo papers submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed
according to the evaluation criteria indicated below.

To better disseminate your work, please also udpate your demo in the systems
submission website with a brief abstract presentation:
http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=184

Challenge Evaluation Criteria
======================================================
Submissions to the RuleML2011@BRF Challenge general Track will be evaluated
according to the following criteria:
- clear exposition of the objectives, outcomes, benefits for going beyond the
state of the art in the application domain (25%)
- demos should demonstrate a good level of effectiveness to manage complex
rules according to statistical/analytical/benchmarking evaluations (25%)
- demos have to demonstrate the results with a concrete example balancing
conciseness and completeness (25%)
- demos should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based
or distributed environment (15%)
- demos should pay attention to end-user interactions, providing an adequate
and usable interface that favors a concrete usage of the application (10%).

Submissions focused on this year's special theme (Knowledge-Based Applications
combining Rules and Ontologies) should show the potential and benefits of
combining rule-based reasoning and taxonomic/frame/description-logic reasoning
in a realistic application. Demos submitted to the Special Theme will be
evaluated according to the following criteria:

- papers should clearly expose the objectives, outcomes, benefits for going
beyond the state of the art in the application domain (20%)
- demos should demonstrate a good level of integration or interaction between
rules and ontologies (40%)
- demos should demonstrate their results with a simple but meaningful case
study, balancing conciseness and completeness (20%)
- demos should preferably be deployed in a web-based or distributed
environment where multiple nodes exchange information (10%)
- demos should pay attention to end-user interactions, providing an adequate
and usable interface that favors a concrete usage of the application (10%).

Proceedings
======================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, benchmarks, evaluations, experience reports
and show/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable
rule-based technologies or applications in web-distributed environments.
Papers must be in English.
Accepted papers will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Exhibition Room
======================================================
The RuleML2011@BRF Chairs are currently evaluating the possibility to have an
exhibition space where to present the demo live to the participants throughout
the Symposium.
More information will be released with the notification of acceptance of the
demo papers and demo systems.

Important Dates
======================================================
Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems: Sept. 2nd, 2011
Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems: Sept. 23rd, 2011
Camera ready papers: Sept. 30th, 2011

RuleML2011@BRF Challenge Chairs
======================================================
Stefano Bragaglia, University of Bologna, Italy
Marco Montali, KRDB, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Charles Petrie, Stanford University, USA
Mark Proctor, Red Hat, UK

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011
The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

University of Vienna, Austria, 14th-16th December 2011
http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/JURIX2011/

The JURIX conference has been running annually for over 20 years and provides an international forum for both academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics to meet and share their research and ideas to advance the field of legal knowledge systems.

The 24th edition of JURIX will be hosted by the University of Vienna. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is September 5th, 2011. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site. Workshops and a selection of conference papers will be published in the electronic journal Jusletter IT.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email.

Programme Chair: Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK.

Local Organisation Chair: Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria in co-operation with University of Brno, Czech Republic and Austrian Computer Society OCG, Vienna.

Important Dates:

• Submissions of papers: Monday 5th September 2011
• Proposals for workshops and tutorials: Monday 12th September 2011
• Notification of acceptance: Late September 2011
• Camera-ready copies: Mid-October 2011
• Conference: 14th-16th December 2011

JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

FTRI 2011 – Workshop Legal Informatics 2011

FTRI 2011 – Workshop Legal Informatics 2011 – Legal Information & Advanced Applications in Law

Wednesday 14 December 2011, University of Vienna
Organised within JURIX 2011, 14-16 December 2011, University of Vienna

Call for Papers

The Workshop Legal Informatics (FTRI) aims to promote a pioneering dialogue between science and practice on technical questions of law in the knowledge society. At the international level, the conferences ICAIL and JURIX exist for many years as platforms for the presentation of scientific results on information systems and applications in AI & law. This FTRI – which takes place before the JURIX conference – should support and strengthen the cooperation between the German and the JURIX groups on AI & law research.

The digitalization and computerization of working places of lawyers is moving on. In technology-friendly law firms already up to 7% of the costs are caused by IT & legal information. This reflects the importance of IT in the legal environment. The supply of information is ensured by external and internal, free or pay information systems. The abundance of materials requires the improvement of searching as well as the ranking of search results. Semantic structuring, starting with electronic filing, is becoming the standard. This paves the way for the use of support systems that do more and more certain activities independently. Therefore, the next phase of the computerization of law is before the doors: IT should not only support the delivery of legal services, but also – semi-automatically or automatically – provide legal services itself. In the current transitional phase, the collaboration of man and machine is a decisive factor. The FTRI should show the state of the art and identify the lines of development.

Contributions are welcome on the following topics:

• Legal information
• Electronic data collection and analysis
• Modern search technologies, access to information, “Google” of law
• Analysis of existing legal information systems
• Methods of search support (search suggestions, automated improvements, etc.)
• Ranking according to structures, content, time, importance, etc.
• Semantic legal information systems
• “question answering” systems
• Semantic Mark-up vs. structured information retrieval
• XML standards for legal documents
• Advanced informatics systems in law
• Knowledge representation in the law: assistance for the acquisition, management and use of legal knowledge by means of legal ontologies, semantic web, computer-supported formal methods in law, intelligent agents, etc.
• Support for attorneys in the drafting of documents, negotiations, legal reasoning, support for legislation and policy development, support for the judiciary (and management) in the application of the law, the analysis of evidence, case management, support for the security police, forensic investigations, etc.
• Legal reasoning and legal argumentation, alternative dispute resolution (especially online), etc.
• Advanced software packages in the law firm or notary

Deadlines

• Deadline for submissions for review: 30 September 2011
• Deadline for abstracts / practice presentations of about 1-2 pages (without contribution to the proceedings): 15 October 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 25 October 2011
• Submission of camera ready papers for the electronic proceedings: 15 November 2011. Submissions should be uploaded exclusively via the conference management system.

Guidelines for submissions from academia and practice

The contributions of the conference will be published electronically in the journal Jusletter IT (http://jusletter-it.eu). The length of the contributions is limited to 4 (short papers), or 8 pages. Abstracts will be included in the summary of the workshop. We request that only the style sheets available on the website are used for writing the papers.

Conference organizers

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer (spokesman of the Legal Informatics Group of the German Society for Informatics GI) , University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe (German Society for Law and Informatics), University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon (Deputy Speaker of the GI group on legal and administrative informatics)), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin

Organizer

GI German Society for Informatics, Group on Legal Informatics

In co-operation with: – DGRI German Society for Law and Informatics – OCG Working Group on legal Informatics – Centre for Legal Informatics, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna

Participation fees

• Participants: 100 Euros
• OCG / GI / DGRI members: 80 Euros
• Authors / presenters: 80 Euros
• Members of the Programme Committee: 80 Euros
• PhD students upon presentation of a subscription: 50 Euros

Programmkomitee (Preliminary)

• Dr. Pascale Berteloot, Amt für Veröffentlichungen, Luxembourg
• Prof. Dr. Walter Blocher, Universität Kassel
• Dr. Colette R. Brunschwig, Universität Zürich
• Mag. Anton Geist, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
• Prof. Dr. Herbert Fiedler, Uni Bonn
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS
• Matthias Grabmair, University of Pittsburgh
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann, Universität Passau
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, Universität Münster
• Prof. Dr. Sayeed Klewitz-Hommelsen, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• Doz. Dr. Ralph Knackstedt, Universität Münster
• Mag. Peter Kustor, Bundeskanzleramt Wien
• Direktor Franz Kummer, Weblaw
• Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lachmayer, Universität Innsbruck
• Dr. Doris Liebwald
• Prof. Dr. Dagmar Lück-Schneider, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Prosser, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerald Quirchmayr, Universität Wien
• Prof. Dr. Reinhard Riedl, FH Bern
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel, Universität Kassel
• Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer, Edinburgh University, UK
• Dr. Günther Schefbeck, Parlament Wien
• Dr. Martin Schneider, Justizministerium, Wien
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, Universität Wien
• Prof. DI Mag. Dr. Michael Sonntag, Universität Linz
• Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Universität Göttingen
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Taeger, Universität Oldenburg
• Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller, Universität Linz
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, Universität Göttingen
• Prof. Dr. Maria A. Wimmer, Universität Koblenz-Landau

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