Freitag, 15. Juli 2011

RULEML2011@BRF

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* 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
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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
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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

Samstag, 9. Juli 2011

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

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und InformatikGesellschaft für Informatik

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

German / Deutsch – Bitte um Beiträge / Call for Papers

Sonntag, 5. Juni 2011

Elsevir SIGR 2011 Application Challenge (CFS)

 

http://developer.sciverse.com/SIGIR2011

When?

The Elsevier SIGIR 2011 Application Challenge opens at June 6. The submission deadline is July 23, 2011, preceding the 34th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference in Beijing, China.

Twitter: follow us @sciversedev or #els-sigir11

How to register?

Registration will soon officially open when our registration tool goes live. Until then, you can pre-register by sending an email to challenge-register@elsevier.com with SIGIR 2011 in the subject line. Include your firstname, lastname and your affiliation. You will receive an email with instructions to complete registration once the registration officially opens.

IP rights

The IP rights of the application remain fully the property of the developers.

Prizes

  1. First prize: 1,500 USD (VISA gift card)

  2. Second prize: 1,000 USD (VISA gift card)

  3. Third prize: 500 USD (VISA gift card)

Official Rules

To read the full Terms and Conditions, go to http://developer.sciverse.com/sigir2011/rules.

Important Dates

Startdate: June 6, 2011
Enddate: July 23, 2011
Judging starts: July 24, 2011
Judging ends: July 26, 2011
Announcement of the Winners: July 26, 2011

Who can participate?

Individual entrants must have registered for the 34th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference and must be present at the conference in Beijing, China from July 24-28, 2011, to be eligible.   At least one member of a team must have registered at the 34th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference, and at least one member of the team must be present at the conference in Beijing, China to be eligible.

Login

Go to http://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects . Click on the "Login" link in the top right of the page. Enter the username and password for your Sciverse profile. You should be redirected to the SciVerse Application Platform and your name should appear on the top right of the page indicating you are logged in.

Get an API Key

You'll need an API key to build your app. To get one, click the "Start a new project" button. Give it a unique Application Name, read through and agree to the developer agreement, then click "Create Project". You should now be on the edit screen. Here you can find your API key and upload and save your application or gadget xml file.

Build Your Application

To create an application you can use Eclipse and the SciVerse SDK containing the plug-in for Eclipse. Download the SDK and read detailed installation instructions on http://developer.sciverse.com/sdk .

Run your Application Online

To run your app online in the live SciVerse environment upload your application’s xml file to your project in ‘my projects’http://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects.

Documentation and Help

Get familiar with SciVerse applications by downloading the SciVerse Starter Kit, available at http://goo.gl/Yfh5Q. For SciVerse documentation: http://developer.sciverse.com/learn . If you need additional help getting started or have questions about the  SciVerse Content or Framework APIs, send an email to developer@elsevier.com .

How to submit your application?

Participants must register before submitting an application. To submit an application go tohttp://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects.

  1. Login: Click on the "Login" link in the top right of the page. Enter the username and password for your Sciverse profile.
  2. Give the Application a unique Application Name.
  3. Agree to the Developer Agreement: Read through and agree to the developer agreement, then click "Create Project".
  4. Provide Application Details: You are now be on the edit screen. Here you find the API key for your Application and you can upload and save your application or gadget xml file. Complete the Application details form.
  5. Submit: To submit your application after reviewing all changes made to the application, click the submit button to submit your application. After you submit your application your application will be locked and you will not be able to make any further changes to your application. If you need to make changes to a locked application, please send an email tochallenge-support@elsevier.com and include your application’s name and your username.

More Information

For questions email Remko Caprio, Developer Platform Evangelist at developer@elsevier.com or challenge-info@elsevier.com.

Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011

RuleML2011@BRF – Call for Papers

NEW DEADLINE: Paper submission June, 12, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)

RuleML
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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                              RuleML2011@BRF
                      5th International Symposium on
              Linked Rules: Research-Based, Industry-Focused
            Westin Diplomat, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 3-5 November 2011
http://2011.ruleml.org/america
About RuleML 2011@BRF
---------------------
In 2011, two instalments of the RuleML Symposium will take place. The first
one will be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, in
July.
The second one will be co-located with the Business Rule Forum to be held in
early November in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The second instalment will
include the RuleML Challenge Award which, this year, is dedicated to
Rules and Ontologies.
Objectives
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RuleML-2011@BRF is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its
main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the field
of rules and semantic technology, and so to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together
rule system providers,participants in rule standardization efforts, open
source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the
symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid
progress in practical rule and event processing technologies.
As a result, RuleML-2011 will feature hands-on demonstrations and
challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks.
It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and share
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration,
interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise intranets
and open environments alike.
Topics
---------------------------------------
As in the previous years, the Symposium will be organized in tracks;
specifically, the RuleML-2011@BRF focus will be on the following areas:
*** Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards
*** Rules and Automated Reasoning
*** Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems
*** Rule Transformation and Extraction
*** Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules
*** NIEM and Rules
*** Cloud Computing and Rules
*** Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty
*** Rules and Norms
*** Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust
*** Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
*** General Topics
Submissions on general rule topics are welcome, such as:
- Progress in rule language specification (in XML Schema, Relax NG, etc.)
- Implemented tools for rule bases (e.g. XML and RDF rule validators)
- Rule interchange and reasoning
- Execution models, rule engines, and development environments
- Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules
- Rules and NLP
- Rule-based applications
- Usability and effectiveness of rule-based systems and languages
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2011 Challenge
---------------------
The RuleML-2011 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2011.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications, one for the
focus theme and one for the other categories.
This year, the Challenge will be focused on the theme:
***Combining Rules, Objects, and Ontologies: Implementations and
Applications***
The call for demos is available on:
http://2011.ruleml.org/america/challenge
Submission Guidelines
---------------------
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies
or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and
may be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011brf
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
The selected demo papers will be published in CEUR proceedings.
Important Dates
---------------
Abstract submission: May 22, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Paper submission: June, 12, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Notification to authors: July, 11, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: July 29, 2011
RuleML-2010 Challenge Demos submission: Sept. 2, 2011
RuleML-2011 dates: Nov 3-5, 2011
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Montag, 9. Mai 2011

ICAL 2011 – Early Registration

*** Early registration ends Monday, May 9 ***

If you have not yet registered for ICAIL, please remember that early registration ends Monday at midnight (Eastern Standard Time).  The rates will go up after that.  The site for registration is www.conftool.net/icail2011.


*** Revised schedule for workshops and tutorials ***

It has unfortunately become necessary to make some schedule changes.  As is shown below, one Monday workshop has been cancelled; one Friday workshop has been shortened to a half day; and another Friday workshop has been moved from morning to afternoon.

We realize that some of you have already registered for the events affected.  If you would now like to change your selections for Monday or Friday, please send an email to the conference secretary at gardner.anne@sbcglobal.net, or just reply to this message.

MONDAY, JUNE 6

WM1. E-discovery: Standards-Setting Workshop  (DESI IV) (full-day workshop)
WM3. Computational Law: a Bridge towards Business Rules (full-day workshop)
TM1. Textual Information Extraction from Legal Resources Using GATE (morning tutorial)

Cancelled:  WM2. Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

WF1. AI & Evidential Inference (full-day workshop)
WF2. Legal Applications of Human Language Technology (morning workshop, formerly full day)
TF1. LegalRuleML (morning tutorial)
WF3. Artificial Intelligence, Coherence and Judicial Reasoning (afternoon workshop, formerly scheduled for the morning)

Donnerstag, 21. April 2011

SIRE 2011–Information Retrieval for E-discovery

Please send replies or questions to Doug Oard (oard@umd.edu)

 

Call for Submissions
SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval for E-discovery (SIRE)
July 28, 2011, Beijing, China
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/sire11/
 
A workshop held in conjunction with the 2011 
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Electronic discovery ("e-discovery") is the use of Information Retrieval (IR) technology to find evidence requested by a party in a legal matter. This application of IR has grown explosively in recent years.  The SIRE workshop will provide a forum for discussion of IR techniques that have or that could be applied to e-discovery, as well as methods for evaluating the effectiveness and cost of such approaches.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Distributed search of large heterogeneous enterprise information systems, including corporate intranets, archival and backup repositories, cloud-based storage, etc.
  • High-recall search of large collections, including those with high densities of relevant documents
  • Supervised learning of classifiers for responsiveness, privilege and other factors of interest (sometimes referred to in e-discovery as predictive coding)
  • IR techniques that leverage the characteristics of specific types of business records (email, instant messages, voice mail, file systems, etc.)
  • Clustering, link analysis, and other methods for discovering structure in large collections, including detection of duplicate documents
  • Process design for human-in-the-loop review and exploitation of large data sets, including measurement of inter-reviewer consistency, active learning, etc.
  • Evaluation design, including sampling strategies, estimation of confidence intervals, and reusability of large test collections

Submissions: 
 
As we presently conceive the workshop, the first session will lay out the nature of e-discovery, thus making the workshop accessible to SIGIR attendees with no prior e-discovery experience. A keynote talk will be followed by a panel discussion by senior IR and e-discovery experts, with substantial time for audience interaction. The second session will then focus on IR techniques. The third session, after lunch, will focus on evaluation. In both cases, the goal will be to dive deeply into specific issues. For the second and third sessions we envision a "discussant" structure in which the talks will be followed by comments from a discussant who seeks to critique, contrast, and/or provoke.  The fourth session will feature a moderated panel discussion focused on crafting a research agenda. The goal will be to identify key issues, venues for action, communities with which to engage, and support to seek. Two types of written contributions are therefore invited:
 
·         Brief (typically 1-2 page) position papers describing individual interests, for inclusion (without review) on the SIRE Web site and distribution to workshop participants.  Brief descriptions of this type can be particularly valuable for workshop like this one in which we seek to bring together diverse research communities.  Additionally, these papers can help with our selection of discussion leaders, discussants, and panelists.  Position papers are requested by June 3, 2011.  Participation in the workshop is open, so prior submission of position papers is strongly encouraged, but not strictly required.    
 
·         Original research papers (4-10 pages).  After peer review, accepted papers will be posted on the SIRE website and made available in hard-copy to workshop participants.  Authors of accepted research papers will be invited to present their work either as an oral or a poster presentation.  Research papers are due on May 13, 2011; decisions will be returned by June 3, 2011.
 
Submissions should be sent by email to Doug Oard (oard@umd.edu) with the subject line SIRE POSITION PAPER or SIRE RESEARCH PAPER.  All submissions received will be acknowledged within 3 days.    
 
Organizing Committee:
 
Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration, USA
Maura Grossman, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, USA
Dave Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting, USA
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011

ICAIL 2011 – Workshops and Tutorials

13th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2011)
June 6 - June 10, 2011
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.law.pitt.edu/icail2011
Workshops and Tutorials

The ICAIL 2011 organizers are pleased to report that the conference will include six workshops and two tutorials.  They are listed below, along with the tentative schedule,  the names of the organizers, and the web sites where fuller descriptions and calls for workshop papers can be found.
All workshop and tutorial participants will be expected to register for ICAIL 2011.  For those not wishing to attend the full conference, a one-day registration rate will be available.  Registration for the full conference will include the workshops and tutorials at no extra charge.  We will send another mailing when registration opens, probably in early April.
Monday, June 6, 2011

WM1. E-discovery: Standards-Setting Workshop  (DESI IV) (full day workshop)
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/desi4/
Deadlines:  research papers April 1; position papers April 22
        Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration, USA
        Laura Ellsworth, Jones Day, USA
        Dave Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting, USA
        Debra Logan, Gartner Research, UK
        Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

WM2. Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law (Monday afternoon workshop)
http://www.leibnizcenter.org/2011-workshop-on-agent-model-based-reasoning-in-law
Deadline:  March 14 (tentative)
        Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
        Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
        Guido Boella, University of Turino, Italy

WM3. Computational Law: a Bridge towards Business Rules (full day workshop)
http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2011-workshop/
Deadline:  April 20
        Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
        Michael Genesereth, Stanford University, USA
        Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia

TM1. Textual Information Extraction from Legal Resources Using GATE (Monday morning tutorial)
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/02/19/textual-information-extraction-from-legal-resources-using-gate/
        Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK
Friday, June 10, 2011

WF1. AI & Evidential Inference (full day workshop)
http://tillers.net/ai/workshop2011.html
        Henry Prakken, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, Netherlands
        Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
        Doug Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
        Peter Tillers, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, USA

WF2. Legal Applications of Human Language Technology (full day workshop)
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/01/29/icail-workshop-applying-human-language-technology-to-the-law/
Deadline: March 31
        Karl Branting, The MITRE Corporation, USA
        Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK

WF3. Artificial Intelligence, Coherence and Judicial Reasoning (Friday morning workshop)
http://coherence2011.wordpress.com/
Deadline:  abstracts April 15; papers tba
        Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University,Poland
        Jaromir Savelka, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

TF1. LegalRuleML (Friday morning tutorial)
http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2011-workshop/
        Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, Canada
        Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
        Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
        Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
        Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia

Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2011

IRIS 2011 – Int. Rechtsinformatik Symposion

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Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 2011, 24.-26.2.2011, Salzburg (AT)

Sehr geehrte Teilnehmer und Freunde des Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions!
Das Programm des IRIS2011 ist nun über die Homepage
www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011 ... Programm verfügbar.

Grafik Merl, Bild KRU www.art-kru.comUnter dem Generalthema Europäische Projektkultur als Beitrag zur Rationalisierung des Rechts werden über 120 SprecherInnen sich mit den aktuellen Fragen der Rechtsinformatik auseinandersetzen. Am Donnerstagabend lädt die UBIT zum Zukunftsforum „Grenzkontrolle Internet: Eine Diskussion über Sperren und Zensur im World Wide Web“. Für weitere Spannung sorgen die Verleihungen des LexisNexis Best Paper Awards sowie des E-Government Innovationspreises der OCG. Eingeladene Vorträge: Michaela Strasser, Projektkultur im Spiegel der Zeiten, und Thomas Gordon, Perspektiven und Grenzen der künstlichen Intelligenz im Recht.

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos; eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich.

Ich hoffe sehr, Sie beim IRIS2011 in  Salzburg zu sehen!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Erich Schweighofer

Als Programmvorsitzender im Namen des

Programmkomitees und der Organisatoren der IRIS2011

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IRIS2011, 24.-26.2.2011, Call for participation

Dear participants and friends of the International Symposium on Legal Informatics!
The programme of IRIS2011 is available at:
www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011 ... Programm

Under the leading topic European Project Culture as a Contribution to the Rationalisation of Law about 120 speakers will discuss recent topics und questions of legal informatics.

Thursday evening the UBIT will organise the future forum on „Border control Internet: A discussion about blocking and censorship on the web“. Further interest will be generated with the LexisNexis Best Paper Award and the E-Government Award of the OCG. Invited talks: Michaela Strasser, Projektkultur im Spiegel der Zeiten (project culture in the mirror of times), and Thomas Gordon, Perspektiven und Grenzen der künstlichen Intelligenz im Recht (perspectives and limits of artificial intelligence in law). Participation is free but a registration is required.

I hope very much seeing you at IRIS2011 in Salzburg!

With best regards,

Erich Schweighofer

As programme chair on behalf of
Programme Committee and organisers of IRIS2011

Wichtiger Hinweis:

Sollten Sie diese Informationen nicht mehr erhalten wollen, senden Sie bitte diese E-Mail mit dem Vermerk ABMELDUNG anErich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at zurück. Sie werden umgehend aus dem Verteiler genommen.

ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Erich Schweighofer

Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik

Institut für Europarecht, Internationales Recht und

Rechtsvergleichung, Universität Wien

Schottenbastei 10-16/2/5, 1010 Wien, AT

Tel. +43 1 4277 35305, Fax +43 1 4277 9353

Erich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at

http://rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at

Bitte um Teilnahme:

IRIS2011, 24.-26.2.2011; Universität Salzburg; www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011

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AICOL 2011 - AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

AICOL 2011
AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems
http://www.aicol.eu
XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 15-20 AUGUST 2011
Call for papers

OBJECTIVES
Work on Artificial Intelligence and Law has been particularly fruitful in the last decade.
Besides providing advanced computer applications for the legal domain such as knowledge
based systems and intelligent information retrieval, research on AI and law has developed
innovative interdisciplinary models for understanding legal systems and legal reasoning,
which are highly significant for philosophy of law and legal theory. Among such models,
we can mention, for instance, logical frameworks for feasible legal reasoning and dialectical
argumentation, logics of normative positions, theories of case-based reasoning, and
computable models of legal concepts.
Today there is a strong need not only to integrate research in AI and law within legal
theory, but also to encompass the different branches of research in AI and law. When
different branches are developing quickly, the risk is in fact missing the opportunities
to exchange knowledge and methodologies. This is particularly so in the case of 'multiagent
systems'-approach and social network analysis, that share concepts and objects of study,
but often present merely superficial convergences in practice as well as in theory.
Multilingual ontologies provide an important opportunity for integrating different trends
of research in AI and law. The domain of multi-system and multi-lingual ontologies not only
offers the opportunity to integrate artificial intelligence with legal theory, but also with
comparative legal studies. Complexity theory, graph theory, game theory and any other
contributions from the mathematics disciplines could help both to formalize the dynamics of
legal systems and to capture the relationships between norms. Cognitive science could help
the legal ontology modelling by taking into account not only the formal features of the law,
but social behaviour, subjective believes, and cultural factors as well.
The aim of the workshop is thus to offer effective support for the exchange of knowledge and
methodological approaches between scholars from different scientific fields, by highlighting
their similarities and differences.
We are expecting to have contributions that are able to capture this interdisciplinary aspect
and prepare the scientific community to a common ground beyond the state of the art of any
individual discipline.

TOPICS
* Law and Science
* Law and Cognitive Science
* Law and Complexity Theory
* Complex Systems
* Legal Theory
* Legal Culture
* Computer Ethics
* Artificial Societies
* Argumentative Frameworks
* Legal Ontologies
* Legal Concepts
* Legal Thesauri
* Taxonomies
* Natural Language Processing (NLP)
* Legal Knowledge Acquisition
* Legal Knowledge Representation
* Knowledge Management
* Cognitive schemas
* Law and Robotics
* Law and Mathematics
* Legal Graphic Representation
* Game Theory
* Formalization of Legal Systems and Norms
* Rules and Standards
* Agreement technologies
* Electronic Institutions
* Legal Information Retrieval
* Online Dispute Resolution
* Trends in e-Discovery, e-Courts, e-Administration
* Users' studies

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:                                       May 16th, 2011
Peer Review Communications:             July 6th, 2011
Camera Ready:                                   July 30th, 2011
AICOL Workshop:                                         August 16th, 2011
Publication: November/December 2011 (LNAI volume)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical
rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective,
practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments.
Papers must be in English and may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicol2011
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
Min.3000 words and max. 15000 words.
Please upload all 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 by at least 3
PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

PUBLICATIONS
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer
LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Danièle Bourcier (CERSA-CNRS, Paris, France)
Pompeu Casanovas (UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Barcelona, Spain)
Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID - University of Bologna, Italy)
Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin, Italy)
Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy)

Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011

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Samstag, 22. Januar 2011

TAFA 2011@IJCAI – CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
TAFA 2011@IJCAI
First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
(TAFA-2011) 
Barcelona, Spain, 16 July 2011
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~niroren/TAFA-11/Welcome.html
About TAFA 2011

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Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of interest in formal models of argumentation and their application in diverse sub-fields and domains of application of AI. Argumentation thus shows great promise as a theoretically-grounded tool for a wide range of applications. This workshop aims at contributing to the realisation of this promise, by promoting and fostering uptake of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with wide ranging application, and providing a forum for further development of ideas and the initiation of new and innovative collaborations. TAFA therefore encourages submission of papers on formal theoretical models of argumentation and application of such models in (sub-fields of) AI, and evaluation of models, both theoretical (in terms of formal properties) and practical (in concretely developed applications). We also particularly encourage work on theories and applications developed through inter-disciplinary collaborations. 
With the above aims and intended impact in mind, the workshop will include an extended panel session inviting leading researchers in argumentation and in sub-fields of AI in which argumentation has been applied. The panel session will address the topic: `The future of argumentation: what is its added value and how we communicate this to researchers in the Artificial Intelligence community and beyond.'
Topics
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The workshop solicits papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Properties of formal models of argumentation
* Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks
* Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks
* Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques
* Evaluation of formal models of argumentation
* Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation
Submission Guidelines
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Submission to the workshop will take place via the EasyChair system, and will be anonymously reviewed. Contributors must submit papers (no longer than 15 pages) in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (style). Formatting instructions, as well as the style and sample files can be found here: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tafa11
Publications
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Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNAI post-proceedings 
Important Dates
---------------
14 March 2011: Submission Deadline
25 April 2011: Notifications of Acceptance
16 May 2011: Camera Ready Copy Due
16/17/18  July 2011: Workshop
Organising Committee
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Co-Chairs:
   * Sanjay Modgil (Corresponding Organiser)
     Department of Informatics,
     King’s College London
     sanjay.modgil [at] kcl.ac.uk
   * Nir Oren
      Department of Computer Science,
      University of Aberdeen
      n.oren [at] abdn.ac.uk
   * Francesca Toni
     Department of Computing, 
     Imperial College London
     ft [at] imperial.ac.uk
Program Committee
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Leila Amgoud, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia, Italy
Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK
Elizabeth Black, Universiy of Utrecht, Netherlands
Guido Boella, Universita di Torino, Italy
Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
Martin Caminada, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Carlos Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Sylvie Doutre, University of Toulouse 1, France
Phan Minh Dung, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Paul Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK
Dov Gabbay, King’s College London, UK
Massimilliano Giacomin, University of Brescia, Italy
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Anthony Hunter, Univeristy College London, UK
Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Nicholas Maudet, Universite Paris Dauphine, France
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK
Sanjay Modgil, King's College London, UK
Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France
Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, UK
Simon Parsons, City University of New York, USA
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, & University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute, UAE, & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK
Nicholas Rotstein, University of Aberdeen, UK
Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK
Serena Villata, University of Turin, Italy
Simon Wells, University of Dundee, UK
Stephan Woltran, TU Vienna, Institute of Information Systems, Austria
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Serena Villata, PhD
Department of Computer Science
University of Turin

C.so Svizzera 185

10149 - Turin
Italy

Phone +39 011 67 06 838

Fax +39 011 75 16 03

e-mail villata@di.unito.it

web http://www.di.unito.it/~villata/

IEEE WETICE 2011 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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                 IEEE WETICE 2011
            2nd International Track on
       Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
                 CALL FOR PAPERS
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June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)

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# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.

Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.

A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S

To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.

Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.

Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE
approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each
accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the
paper published in the proceedings.

Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests
and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted
in PDF format at the submission site
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please
contact the track chairs (comets2011@easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.

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Important Dates
+++++++++++++++

* Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011
* Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011
* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011
* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011


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Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++

* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

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Program Committee
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
and California State University, USA
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University, Canada
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)

SNAMAS@AISB 2011 – CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Jan 31st
CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM
SNAMAS@AISB 2011 Convention
http://snamas2011.res-ear.ch/
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/
4-7 April 2011, University of York, UK

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
- Matthias Mailliard (Cemagref, France)
- Clara Smith (UNLP and UCALP, Argentina)
- Frédéric Amblard (IRIT, France)
- Samuel Thiriot (INRIA, France)
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The aim of the SNAMAS Symposium is to exchange ideas, tools,
methodologies, on various works in MAS that integrate the social network
component.
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TOPICS
The 2011 release of SNAMAS will be focused on "social relations and
their underlying processes in social organizations". Special
attention will be paid to empirical studies. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to) works exhibiting:
- empirical and/or theoretical research on a specific social
relation (e.g. relation of power, solidarity, legitimity, trust...);
- the role of specific social relations in structuring organizations;
- the role of agents´ attributes in structuring social relations
(values, emotions, cognitive abilities, ...);
- the role of social relation structures on agent behaviour;
- agent mechanisms and algorithms dealing with representations for
social relations;
- social relations regulations;
- comparative and ontological studies for SNA and MAS;
- mathematical representations for describing and analysing structures for
social relations, and their dynamics.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): January 31, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011.
Camera ready version deadline: TBA
Symposium: 4th - 7th April, 2011.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should consult the instructions on the website for submitting
their papers electronically.
Guidelines for paper submission are as the following:
- The paper should be written in English.
- The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format
(format download:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html).
- The paper should be in PDF format.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system.
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisb11 (Track : Social
Networks and Multi-agent systems))
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luis Antunes (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Guido Boella (University of Turin)
Cristiano Castelfranchi, (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Univ. Leicester, UK)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Terrill Frantz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Camille Roth (CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France)
Giovanni Sartor (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
Serena Villata (University of Turin)
Justin Zhan (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
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POST PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers, under a second review process, will be considered for
a special issue of the Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory Journal (CMOT) Springer.
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CONTACTS
For further inquiries please contact: snamas2011@res-ear.ch
--
Dra. Clara Smith
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Calle 50 esquina 120
(1900) La Plata, Argentina.

ASONAM 2011 – CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011)
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
July 25st~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.

*********************************************************************
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 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asonam2011. 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.