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)