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

IRIS 2011 – Int. Rechtsinformatik Symposion

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.

Unter 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:

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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)