JURIX

Call for Paper
12th International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2018)
associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2018
(isAI 2018)

Raiosha, Hiyoshi Campus in Keio University
12 and 13 November 2018 – Yokohama, Japan

Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional “AI and law” area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Model of legal reasoning
•Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
•Legal term ontology
•Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
•Translation of legal documents
•Information retrieval of legal texts
•Computer-aided law education
•Use of Informatics and AI in law
•Legal issues on applications of robotics and AI to society
•Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
•Natural language processing for legal knowledge
•Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
•Normative Systems/Deontic Logic
•Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURIX 2018 (The 31th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2018 is as follows:
1.Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2018 and JURIX2018 must note this on the title page.
2.A paper to be presented at JURISIN2018 must be withdrawn from JURIX2018 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.
3.If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2018.

Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag LNAI series after the second round of review after the workshop.

Invited Speakers
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: August 30, 2018(tentative)( AOE )
Notification: September 30, 2018(tentative)
Camera-ready due: October 10, 2018(tentative) ( AOE )

Steering Committee members
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

Advisory Committee Members
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK
Tomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

Program  Committee Members
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK
Ryuta Arisaka, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Kristijonas Cyras, Imperial College London, UK
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
Tatsuhiko Inatani, Kyoto University, Japan
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Tetsuro Kawamoto, AIST, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan
Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, Chaina
Brian Logan, The University of Nottingham, UK
Hatsuru Morita, Tohoku University, Japan
Yoichi Motomura, AIST, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Nihon University, Japan
Konatsu Nishigai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Titech, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
Fumio Shimpo, Keio University, Japan
Kazuko Takahashi, Kansei Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Rob van den Hoven van Genderen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan

COLIEE 2018
This year, JURISIN will co-located with the Fifth Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE-2018).
The motivation for the competition is to help create a research community of practice for the capture and use of legal information.
Please visit the homepage of COLIEE2018
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/COLIEE2018/
to see the detail of the competition.

For further information, please contact
Katsumi Nitta,
Workshop Chair, Tokyo Institute of Technology
nitta ‘at’ dis.titech.ac.jp

Call for Papers of the

31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

(JURIX 2018)

Groningen (The Netherlands), 12-14 december 2018

http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl

Topics

For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems, under the auspices of The JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge systems, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications. We welcome submissions on a wide variety of topics including, but not limited to, the following:

I – Theory and foundations

Contributions to the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal and forensic domain. Papers should demonstrate (formal) validity, novelty and significance of the work.

• Representation languages and formalisms for legal knowledge;
• Models of legal and ethical knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values, procedures and society models;
• Models of legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions, including normative systems, and norm-governed societies;
• Methods and algorithms for performing legal inference, including argumentation;
• Methods and algorithms for designing legal data analytics and predictive models.

II – Technology

Contributions to the technological advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems in the legal and forensic domain. Papers should demonstrate quality, novelty and significance of the work, and evaluate results.

• Technology for expressing the structure and connections of legal texts and rules, including legislative, judicial, parliamentary, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Technology for expressing the semantics of legal information and knowledge, including Legal Open Data, Legal Big Data, Knowledge Graph Database;
• Technology for the large scale analysis of legal knowledge and information;
• Technology for the verification and validation of legal knowledge systems, including checking compliance systems;
• Technology for digital-rights management, licensing, access policies and authorisation, including issues in social networks;
• Technology for managing privacy, cybersecurity and digital identity issues, including blockchain methods;
• Technology for managing eCommerce, fraud detection and new market platforms issues;
• Technology for natural language processing and annotation of legal texts;
• Technology for social simulations in the legal domain and for democratic innovation;
• Technology for information retrieval over large bodies of legal texts and legal data;
• Support and methodologies for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge in information systems.

III – Applications

Implementations of AI & Law technology in real world systems. Papers should demonstrate added value, novelty and significance of the work, and if possible, validate the described system and evaluate (potential) impact.

• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, publishing and implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for police and law enforcement activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for business, economic transactions, and other private parties in managing regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Support for private parties in using alternative forms of dispute resolution, particularly online;
• Support for governance and citizens in enhancing participation, for a better communication (e.g fake news) and democracy (e.g. political data in social media);
• Support for education by using legal information systems in a teaching environment.

Long, Short, and Demo Paper submission

The deadline for paper submission is Sunday, September 16, 2018.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press in their series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA). Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System in PDF format:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2018

All submissions should be formatted using the styles and guidelines in the IOS Press Instructions for Authors.

There are three categories of papers. Please indicate the category of your paper when you submit the paper to Easychair.

Long papers

These are reports of well-developed and original research. An accepted long paper scores well in terms of relevance, originality, technical quality, significance, literature review, presentation, reviewer’s confidence, and overall evaluation. These should not exceed 10 pages. A paper which is not accepted as a long paper may be recommended by reviewers as a short paper.

Short papers

Authors can submit short descriptions of preliminary results or an innovative idea. These papers should not exceed 4 pages.

Demo papers

Authors can submit short descriptions of a system. These papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors of demo papers should be willing to share (a screencast of) the demo privately with the reviewers, if so requested.

Double Submission

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except to JURISIN 2018. Papers being submitted both to JURIX 2018 and JURISIN 2018 must note this on the title page, and a paper to be presented at JURIX 2018 must be withdrawn from JURISIN 2018 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors. Failure to follow this policy will result in the paper not being included in the proceedings of JURIX 2018.

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: 10 September 2018 (recommended)
Paper submission deadline: 16 September 2018
Demo & poster submission deadline: 16 September 2018
Notification of acceptance of regular papers: 10 October 2018
Camera-ready deadline for regular papers: 19 October 2018
Workshops & Tutorials: 12 December 2018
Main conference: 13 & 14 December 2018

Organisation

Programme Chair:
– Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Organising co-chairs:
– Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
– Henry Prakken, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen & Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
– Bart Verheij, Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

The 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems is organized in Groningen, The Netherlands (December 12–14, 2018).

Program chair: Monica Palmirani

Organisers: Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij

http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl

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CFP: Eleventh International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2017)
(associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2017 (IsAI-2017))

homepage: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2017

** Workshop dates
November 14 – 15, 2017
** Venue
Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/access/tokyocampus-access

** Important Dates
Submission Deadline: August 28, 2017
Notification: October 1, 2017
Camera-ready due: October 13, 2017

** Aims and Scope
Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the
perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both
the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various
backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent
technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional “AI and law”
area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and
applications on juris-informatics.

** Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Model of legal reasoning
Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
Legal term ontology
Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal
knowledge-base
Translation of legal documents
Information retrieval of legal texts
Computer-aided law education
Use of Informatics and AI in law
Legal issues on applications of robotics and AI to society
Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
Natural language processing for legal knowledge
Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with
juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

** Invited Speakers
Kevin D. Ashley (University of Pittsburgh)
Katsumi Nitta (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

** Submissions
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURIX 2017 (The 28th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2017 is as follows:

Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2017 and JURIX2017 must note this on the title page.
A paper to be presented at JURISIN2017 must be withdrawn from JURIX2017 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.
If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2017.

Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer
Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from
http://www.springeronline.com and not exceed 14 pages including figures,
references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of
the format, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper
submission page. If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper
must register the workshop and present it. We strongly encourage an online
registration.
You can submit your paper at
“https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2017”. If you cannot submit
a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please send email to
“ksatoh[at]nii.ac.jp”

** Post Proceedings
Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag
LNAI series after the second round of review after the workshop.

** Workshop Chair
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

** Steering Committee Members
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

** Advisory Committee Members
Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK
Tomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

** Program Committee Members
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Ryuta Arisaka, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Kristijonas Cyras Imperial College London
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, Data61, Australia
Tatsuhiko Inatani, Kyoto University, Japan
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan
Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, Chaina
Hatsuru Morita, Tohoku University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Nihon University, Japan
Konatsu Nishigai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Titech, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Ginevra Peruginelli, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University, Japan
Giovanni Sartor, EUI/CIRSFID, Italy
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai
Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
Fumio Shimpo, Keio University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Rob van den Hoven van Genderen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Katsumasa Yoshikawa, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan
Adam Wyner, University of Aberdeen, UK

For any inquiry concerning the workshop, please send it to
“ksatoh[at]nii.ac.jp”