CFP: Third International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2009)

[Ken Satoh]

Third International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2009)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2009.html

Nov. 19-20, 2009
Campus Innovation Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: September 14, 2009
Notification: October 5, 2009
Camera Ready Copy due: October 12, 2009
JURISIN 2009: November 19-20, 2009

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 for juris-informatics 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We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on 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.

Topics
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Legal reasoning
* Argumentation/Argumentation agent
* Legal term ontology
* Formal legal knowledge-base/Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
* Translation of legal documents
* Computer-aided law education
* Use of Informatics and AI in law
* Legal issues on ubiquitous computing/multi-agent system/the Internet
* Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law

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 10 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 to the designated page which 
will be announced later.
If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the 
workshop and present it.


Proceedings
A printed volume of the proceedings with ISBN will be available at the 
workshop.

Post Proceedings
We are now negotiating with Springer Verlag about publishing selected papers 
of the workshop as a volume of LNAI. If it is the case, the authors of 
papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their 
contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop 
discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings, after another 
round of refereeing.
Note that the selected papers of the first and the second workshops have 
been published as volumes of LNAI4914 and LNAI5447 respectively.

Financial Support for Students
We have some budget for partial economical support for traveling costs for 
promising foreign students whose papers have been accepted to be presented 
at JURISIN2009. The support is at most 200,000 yen for each students, and 
the actuall support might vary based on the number of applicants and where 
students come from. Please contact Ken Satoh (ksatoh at nii.ac.jp) for 
details.


Workshop Chair
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan

Programme Committee Members
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Hajime Sawamura, Niigata University, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

For any inquiry, please send it to "jurisin2009 at nii.ac.jp".