Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules at JURIX 2010

A Workshop on Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules at JURIX 2010,
Liverpool, United Kingdom, December 15 2010
As part of the JURIX 2010 conference in Liverpool UK, we will hold a
Workshop on Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules.  This workshop is a
follow on from successful workshops at JURIX 2007 and ICAIL 2009.
Links:
JURIX:  http://conference.jurix.nl/2010/
Workshop:
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2010/10/08/call-for-papers-jurix-2010-workshop-on-modelling-legal-cases-and-legal-rules/
Contact person:  Adam Wyner, adam@wyner.info
Legal cases and legal rules in common law contexts have been modelled
in a variety of ways over the course of research in AI and Law to
support different styles of reasoning for a variety of problem-solving
contexts, such as decision-making, information retrieval, teaching,
etc.  Particular legal topic areas and cases have received wide
coverage in the AI and Law literature including wild animals (e.g.
Pierson v. Post, Young v. Hitchens, and Keeble v. Hickeringill),
intellectual property (e.g. Mason v. Jack Daniel Distillery), and
evidence (e.g. the Rijkbloem case).  As well, some legal rules have
been widely discussed, such as legal argument schemes (e.g. Expert
Testimony) or rules of evidence (see Walton 2002).  However, other
areas have been less well covered.  For example, there appears to be
less research on modelling legal cases in civil law contexts;
investigation of taxonomies and ontologies of legal rules would
support abstraction and formalisation (see Sherwin 2009); additional
legal rules could be brought under the scope of investigation, such as
those bearing on criminal assault or causes of action.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in which researchers
can present their research on modelling legal cases and legal rules.
Papers are solicited that model a particular legal case or a small set
of legal rules.  Authors are free to choose the case or set of legal
rules and analyse them according to the authors' preferred model of
representation; any theoretical discussion should be grounded in or
exemplified by the case or rules at hand.  Papers should make clear
what are the particular distinctive features of their approach and why
these features are useful in modelling the chosen case or rules.  The
workshop is an opportunity for authors to demonstrate the benefits of
their approach and for group discussions to identify useful
overlapping features as well as aspects to be further explored and
developed.
Format of papers and submission guidelines:
Full papers should not be more than 10 pages long and should be
submitted in PDF format.  It is suggested that the conference style
files are used for formatting (see IOS Press site).
All papers should provide:
A summary of the case or legal rules.
An overview of the representation technique, or reference to a full
description of it.
The representation itself.
Discussion of any significant features.
Short position papers are also welcome from those interested in the
topic but who do not wish to present a fully represented case or
elaborate discussion of a set of legal rules; the short position
papers can outline ideas, sketch directions of research, summarise or
reflect on previously published work that has addressed the topic.  A
short position paper should be not more than five pages, giving a
clear impression of what would be presented.
All submissions should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the workshop
organiser, Adam Wyner, at: adam@wyner.info.
Programme Committee (Preliminary)
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer, FOKUS, Germany
Robert Richards, Seattle, Washington, USA
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Douglas Walton, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Organisation
Organiser of this workshop is Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK.
You can contact the workshop organiser by sending an email to
adam@wyner.info
Dates
Paper submission:  Friday, November 5, 2010
Accepted Notification:  Friday, November 12, 2010
Workshop Registration:  Friday, November 19, 2010
December 15, 2010 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
December 16-17, 2010 Jurix 2010 Main Conference

MIWAI'10 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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MIWAI'10 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.
December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand.
(Tutorials December 8)
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/
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***NEW - PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 22!!!***
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***NEW - STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS***
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Some travel scholarships are now available for students wishing to
attend MIWAI 2010:
. At least one scholarship for students enrolled at universities outside
Thailand of up to a maximum of 20,000 Thai Baht (approx 630 USD).
. FOUR scholarships for students enrolled at Thai universities of
2,500 Baht each.
More scholarships may be made available soon. For details about
how to apply see
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/Awards_and_Scholarships.html
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Important Dates
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Papers due (NEW!!):              October 22, 2010
Author notification:             November 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due:         November 22, 2010
Registration deadline:           December 2, 2010
Tutorials:                       December 8, 2010
Workshop dates:                  December 9-10, 2010
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About MIWAI
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real world
problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, pattern
recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and strategy games.
The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local and on a global scale
demand better technologies for solving more and more complex problems. Such
needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part of the world.
This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI research
meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in the real world.
The academic researchers, developers, and industrial practitioners will
have extensive opportunities to present their original work, technological
advances and practical problems. Participants can learn from each other and
exchange their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in order
to help each other better.
The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows:
. to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in
Thailand and beyond.
. to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the presence
of outstanding international invited speakers.
. to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of
Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from an
internationally-renowned program committee.
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Invited Speakers + Tutorials
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Invited Speakers:
1.Arun Agarwal (University of Hyderabad, India)
2.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)
Tutorials (December 8):
1.Siba K. Udgata (University of Hyderabad, India)
"Swarm Intelligence - A Tool for Optimization in various Information
Technology Applications"
2.Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham)
"Reasoning using Argumentation: An Introduction"
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Awards
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There will be five awards given out at the workshop:
(i) Best original paper (4,000 Baht): Given to the best category A
submission (see below), from any origin.
(ii) Best original paper by a PhD student (2,000 Baht): Given to the best
category A paper whose first author is a registered PhD student, from any
origin.
(iii) Best original paper by a Masters student (2,000 Baht): Given to the
best category A paper whose first author is a registered Masters student,
from any origin.
(iv) Best demonstration (2,000 Baht): Given to the best demonstration (see
category C submissions below - note this prize will only be awarded in case
at least 3 demonstrations are presented at the workshop).
(v) Best reviewer (a gift): Given to the reviewer who has given the most
helpful feedback on the papers they have been assigned to review.
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Call for Papers
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Submission of papers is due on October 22, 2010. The research areas in AI
include but not limited to:
- Agent-based simulation
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Agents and Web services
- Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
- AI in video games
- Computer vision
- Constraint satisfaction
- Data mining
- Decision theory
- Distributed AI
- E-Commerce and AI
- Game theory
- Internet/WWW intelligence
- Industrial applications of AI
- Intelligent tutoring
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Machine learning
- Multiagent planning and learning
- Multiagent systems and their applications
- Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics
- Uncertainty in AI
- Web services
Submission requirements
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Submissions of the following three categories are invited:
Category A: REGULAR PAPERS
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Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed a
length of 12 pages in the IEEE format style (templates here:
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/textemplate.zip,
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/wordtemplate.zip) Regular
papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. Reviewing of
category A papers will be (at least) double-blind. In order to make blind
reviewing possible, the authors should follow that:
. The authors' names and institutions should not appear in the paper.
. Unpublished work of the authors should not be cited.
. Using "we" or "us" in reviews of literature should be avoided, e.g.,
"In [1] we have proposed..." should be changed to "In [1] the authors have
proposed...".
The program committee will evaluate Category A papers as either rejected‚
or accepted as a long paper, or accepted as a short paper. All accepted
category A papers (long and short) will be fully published in the
proceedings.
Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS
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Papers that have been accepted after June 1 2009 for AI-related refereed
conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as
"compressed contributions". Authors are invited to submit the published
version (without page or format restriction) together with a 1 or 2-page
abstract prepared in the IEEE format style (links to templates above). Note
the above double-blind instructions apply only to category A papers, not to
category B. The abstract of the paper will be published in the proceedings.
Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the
corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as
corresponding author.
Category C: DEMONSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
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Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted
demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the system to
be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for which it
is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition, the
system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes)
should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to submit
papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size of
demonstration summaries is 2 pages (links to templates above). Reviewing of
category C papers will be double-blind (see above under "category A" papers
for details).
The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number.
At least one author of each accepted paper (in each submission category) is
required to attend the workshop.
Language Requirements
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As MIWAI is an international workshop, its official language is English.
This means all submitting authors must submit an English language version
of their paper, as well as present their paper in English if accepted for
the workshop.
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Committees
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Advisory Committee
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-Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
-Wirat Pongsiri (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Program Co-Chairs
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- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University,
Thailand)
- Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Program Committee (provisional)
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- Arun Agarwal (Hyderabad, India)
- Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France)
- Laor Boongasame (Bangkok University, Thailand)
- Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK)
- Kosin Chamnongthai (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Matthew Dailey (AIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping, Sweden)
- Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France)
- Kittichai Lavangnananda (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Eric Pacuit (Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Vineet Padmanabhan (Hyderabad, India)
- Patrice Perny (Paris 6, France)
- Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
- Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia)
- Alok Singh (Hyderabad, India)
- Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
- Siriwan Suebnukarn (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg)
- Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Siba Kumar Udgata (Hyderabad, India)
- Paul Weng (Paris 6, France)
Publicity Chairs
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-Wijittra Noisanguan (Rajamangala University of Technology, Isan, Surin
campus, Thailand)
-Mana Setwong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Local Organisation Chairs
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-Suwicha Nantawong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Phisanurak Pitathasang (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
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Contact
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Please direct any comments or enquiries to Chattrakul Sombattheera
(chattrakul.s[AT]msu.ac.th) or Richard Booth (richard.booth[AT]uni.lu).

Call for Papers - ASONAM 2011

The 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
July 25st ĄV July 27th 2011
http://asonam.im.nuk.edu.tw/
CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE : March 1st, 2011
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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The international conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011) will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue that will bring together practitioners and researchers from a variety of SNAM fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices.
ASONAM 2011 is intended to address important aspects with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining.
The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works on social network analysis and mining along with their application to real life situations.
General areas of interest to ASONAM 2011 include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine.
More specialized topics within ASONAM include, but are not limited to:
Anomaly detection in social network evolution Application of social network analysis
Application of social network mining
Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
Contextual social network analysis
Contextual social network mining
Crime data mining and network analysis
Cyber anthropology
Dark Web
Data protection inside communities
Detection of communities by document analysis
Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
Economical impact of social network discovery
Evolution of patterns in the Web
Evolution of communities in the Web
Evolution of communities in organizations
Geography of social networks
Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
Knowledge networks
Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
Misbehavior detection in communities
Migration between communities
Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
Open source intelligence
Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
Personalization for search and for social interaction
Preparing data for Web mining
Political impact of social network discovery
Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
Recommendation networks
Scalability of social networks
Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
Social and cultural anthropology
Social geography
Social psychology of information diffusion
Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
Visual representation of dynamic social networks
Web mining algorithms
Web communities
Important dates
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November 1, 2010 Paper submission process opens
March 1, 2011 Full paper submission deadline
April 8, 2011 Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2011 Camera-ready paper due
April 20, 2011 Presenting author registration due
June 10, 2011 Discount registration for general public due
July 25-27, 2011 Conference events
Paper Submission
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited.
Full paper submission deadline is March 1, 2011.
These papers will follow an academic review process.
Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two- column template).
Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted to the conference Web site: asonam2011.im.nuk.edu.tw. If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to iting@nuk.edu.tw by March 1, 2011. The attachment must be in PDF or Word .doc format.
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full conference fee.

The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2010)
Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010
http://bnaic2010.uni.lu
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial
Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the
Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating
Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order
to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and
engineers in related disciplines. This year we are delighted to bring BNAIC
for the first time to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. According to the
success of previous years, BNAIC 2010 will include invited speakers,
research presentations and project demonstrations.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Jerome Lang, Senior Resercher at CNRS, Paris, France
Title: Incomplete Knowledge and Communication Issues in Voting
- Michael Mateas, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: The Algorithm is the Message: AI as an Expressive Medium
ACCEPTED PAPERS
For the full list see http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/accepted_papers.html
REGISTRATION
Deadline for on-line registration is October 20th, the registration site
can be accessed from the conference website at
http://bnaic2010.uni.lu/registration.html.
IMPORTANT DATES
Online registration until: October 20, 2010
All registrations done after October 20 will have to be done on-site
without additional cost.
Conference: October 25-26, 2010
CHAIRS
General Chairs:
- Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)
- Eric Dubois (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
- Thibaud Latour (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
- Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg)
Program Chairs:
- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg)
- Gregoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg)
- Benjamin Gateau (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
- Isabelle Jars (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
- Djamel Khadraoui (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
- Marcin Seredynski (University of Luxembourg)