First 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 13 - 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 We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.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
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, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(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 Tatsuhiko Inatani, Kyoto University, Japan Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand Guido Governatori, Data61, Australia Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China 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, Japan Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan Fumio Shinpo, 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 Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan
For any inquiry concerning the workshop, please send it to "ksatoh[at]nii.ac.jp"