ICAIL 2013 - Call for papers

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Under the Auspices of the Senate of the Italian Republic

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

Sponsored by:

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

Call for Papers, Workshops and Demonstrations

The field of AI and Law is concerned with:

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

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

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

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

Two tracks: regular papers and innovative applications papers

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

Demonstrations

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

ICAIL Workshops and Tutorials

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

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

Mentoring Program for ICAIL 2013

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

Important Dates

These dates are tentative and subject to change

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

Submission Details

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

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

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

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

Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper

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

Conference Officials

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

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

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

Call for Papers: Jurix 2012

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

http://conference.jurix.nl/2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bild stammt von Massimo Catarinella und zeigt einen Radfahrer in Amsterdam

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Important Dates:

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

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

FTRI 2011 – Workshop Legal Informatics 2011

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

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

Call for Papers

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

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

Contributions are welcome on the following topics:

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

Deadlines

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

Guidelines for submissions from academia and practice

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

Conference organizers

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

Organizer

GI German Society for Informatics, Group on Legal Informatics

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

Participation fees

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

Programmkomitee (Preliminary)

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

German / Deutsch – Bitte um Beiträge / Call for Papers

RuleML2011@BRF – Call for Papers

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

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              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
----------
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
LA RICERCA C’È E SI VEDE:
5 per mille all'Università di Bologna - C.F.: 80007010376
http://www.unibo.it/Vademecum5permille.htm
Questa informativa è inserita in automatico dal sistema al fine esclusivo della realizzazione dei fini istituzionali dell’ente.

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

-----------------

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

Tagungsbände verfügbar! I R I S    2 0 0 8,    I R  I S    2 0 0 9,   I R I S   2 0 1 0

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)

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

--------------------------
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
------
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
---------------------
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
------------
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
-----------------
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
-----------------
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

--------------------------

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

#################################################################

                 IEEE WETICE 2011

            2nd International Track on

       Collaborative Modeling and Simulation

                 CALL FOR PAPERS

#################################################################

June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)

http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11 

#################################################################

# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 ***

# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings

# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.

#################################################################

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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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

(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is

supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please

contact the track chairs (comets2011@easychair.org) if you

experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.

+++++++++++++++

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

++++++++++++++++++++

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

+++++++++++++++++

Program Committee

+++++++++++++++++

* 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)

Email: daniele.gianni@esa.int

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

-------------------------------------------------------------
SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
- Matthias Mailliard (Cemagref, France)
- Clara Smith (UNLP and UCALP, Argentina)
- Frédéric Amblard (IRIT, France)
- Samuel Thiriot (INRIA, France)
--------------------------------------------------------------
The aim of the SNAMAS Symposium is to exchange ideas, tools,
methodologies, on various works in MAS that integrate the social network
component.
--------------------------------------------------------------
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------
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))
--------------------------------------------------------------
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)
------------------------------------------------------------
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.
------------------------------------------------------------
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
===============
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
====================
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.

SpringSim'11 Poster Sessions CALL FOR PAPERS

SpringSim'11 Poster Sessions CALL FOR PAPERS

April 4 - 7, 2011
Boston, MA, USA

The SpringSim'11 Poster Session is Part of the 2011 Spring Simulation
Multiconference (SpringSim'11) Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and
Simulation International (SCS) in collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM.
All accepted papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library

Key Dates

Short Paper due          20 Jan 2011
Notification             13 Feb 2011
Camera-ready Paper due   28 Feb 2011

SpringSim11 Poster session Web Site:
http://www.scs.org/springsim/2011?q=node/239
------------------------------------------------------------------------

We are seeking outstanding short paper (2 pages) submissions that will be
presented in a poster format at the conference. Short papers should
present interesting recent results or novel ideas that are not quite ready
for a regular full-length paper. Student papers are particularly welcome.
A Best Student Paper Award will be selected. Paper submission is encouraged
in any modeling and simulation related areas including but not limited to :

    *  Computer/Communication Networks
    *  Numerical Simulation and Optimization as Applied to Business and
       Industry
    *  Modeling and Simulation in Computer Security
    *  Modeling and Simulation and Military applications
    *  Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Telecommunication Systems
    *  Web-based Modeling and Simulation
    *  High-performance Computing and Simulation
    *  Network/Internet Traffic Modeling and Workload Characterization
    *  Simulation Languages, Tools, and Environments
    *  Simulation of Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems and Databases
    *  Simulation of Clusters, Grids and Wireless Systems
    *  Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems
    *  Modeling and Simulation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems
    *  Simulation Methodology, Theory and Philosophy
    *  Parallel and Distributed Simulators and Simulation Techniques
    *  Application of Modelling and Simulation in Biology
    *  Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation


Submission Instructions

Prepare a 2-page paper using the Paper Formatting Guidelines for the
conference. All final paper submissions are to be made electronically to
SCS via the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System. Submissions
will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Accepted short papers will be
presented in the poster session as well as the poster proceedings and
ACM DL.

Chair
Mohammad Moallemi (Carleton University)

Co-chairs
Syed S. Rizvi (University of Bridgeport)
Qi Zheng (Texas A&M University)

DEVS 2011 – call for workshop papers

SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF MODELING AND SIMULATION (DEVS 2011)
April 4-7 2011. Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel Boston, MA. USA.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11
Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM and ICST

The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent
advancements in Theory of M&S. The main focus is on theory of modeling,
methodology, practice and software to cope with the challenges arising
out of these, as well as lessons learned and challenges. The Symposium
bridges different areas in the field of Theory of M&S, including formal
modeling, model-checking, graph transformation, modeling methodologies.
All papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in
both the the ACM and EU Digital Libraries; Full Papers will be also
printed in hard copy. With over 80 submissions to the Symposium, this
promises to be a very exciting venue for the interchange of ideas and
scientific discusion in M&S.

THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN

- Work-In-Progress (WIP) Workshop
This Workshop is focused on recent advances in the field of Theory of
M&S, and will include recent advanced that have not been fully developed.
The workshop topics, committee, are the same as the main symposium. The
paper (up to 6 pages long in final conference format), will appear in
the proceedings (in the Workshops section).
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11
- DEVS Standardization (Chairs: Xiaolin Hu - Georgia State - and Hessam
Sarjoughian - Arizona State University -).
http://www.acims.arizona.edu/EVENTS/DEVSStandardization.htm
- Mod4Sim: M&S and Software Engineering (Chairs: Andrea D'Ambroggio -
UniRoma "Tor Vergata" - and Dorina Petriu - Carleton University -).
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/mod4sim11/

Important Dates
===============
Paper Submission:       30 Jan 2011
Notification:           10 Feb 2011
Ready-Camera Paper:     25 Feb 2011
Conference:             4-7 Apr 2011

DEVS 2011 Organizing committee
==============================
General Chairs:
Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
Mamadou K. Traoré, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Program Chairs:
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Jan Himmelspach, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Advisory Board
Bernard P. Zeigler (FIEEE, FSCS, LAA-SCS), University of Arizona, (Chair)
Christos Cassandras (FIEEE, FIFAC), Boston University
François Cellier (FSCS), ETH Zürich
Mo Jamshidi (FIEEE, FASME, FAAAS), University of Texas at San Antonio
Kishor Trivedi (FIEEE, GCM IEEE CS), Duke University

DEVS 2011 International Technical Program Committee
===================================================
http://sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11/doku.php?id=organizing_committee
Further information:
http://sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/DEVS11/doku.php
[Apologies for multiple postings]
[Problems/issues: contact Gabriel.Wainer@sce.carleton.ca]