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

RULEML2011@BRF

* 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
======================================================
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
======================================================
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

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

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 34^th 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 34^th 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.

RuleML2011@BRF – Call for Papers

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

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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
----------
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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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)