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ICAIL 2011: Workshops and Tutorials

Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin

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.

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

PhD position on Multi Agent Systems at UvA

Posted on February 8, 2011 by admin

A PhD position on agent concepts in public administration at the Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam

The PhD student will work on the design methodology for multi-agent simulations, and address the interesting theoretical questions we have about agent role descriptions as design components in multi-agent simulation. The PhD student will also give input to a methodology for acquisition of legal knowledge from the text of the law.

Agent roles in general are identied with a set of abilities, and a set of susceptibilities to actions of others, and with goals, plans, and beliefs typical of that role. Law-based agent roles are a natural approach to knowledge acquisition from the sources of law. Law-based agent roles can be characterized by a set of powers and liabilities, duties and rights found in legal rules in thetext of the law.

The agent role description includes a subjective theory about the social system or organizational structure in which an agent is embedded. Of specic interest in the legal domain is the fact that there are clear costs and limits tothe collection of evidence, given the limited access of the agent to its domain, and that the application of legal rules is therefore often bound to a context of use.

The agent role descriptions will be used as design components in multi-agent system simulation. These simulations may represent current situations, proposed design alternatives, theories of noncompliance, etc.

Job requirements

The candidate is supposed to write a PhD-thesis on the subject outlined below. He or she will be contracted as a PhD-student (AiO) conform the regulations of the University of Amsterdam.

The candidate for this position should have a master’s degree or equivalent. The candidate should be interested in the legal domain & in multi-agent systems. We are looking for someone with programming skills and a background in multi-agent systems, knowledge representation, and/or semantic web technology.

Preferably the candidate should have Dutch reading skills at the level required for understanding legal documents, but very suitable non-Dutch applicants will be considered. Students that have not yet finished their master’s thesis, but are about to do so within 3 months are also invited to apply for this position.

Contact: prof. Tom M. van Engers, vanEngers@uva.nl

For more information, please visit the Leibniz Center for Law website

CLIMA XII: Session on Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems

Posted on February 1, 2011 by admin

The 12th international Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XII) invites submissions for a special session on Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems. The submission deadline is April 4 (for abstracts) and April 8 (for papers). CLIMA XII is affiliated with IJCAI 2011 and will take place in Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011. For more information see the workshop website.