Deadline Extension: Fifth International Workshop on Juris-informatics(JURISIN 2011)

[Ken Satoh]

Apologies for cross-postings.

Due to several requests, we decided to extend the deadline for JURISIN 2011.
We are very happy to announce that Bob Kowalski and Shugo Hotta will give 
invited talks at JURISIN 2011.

Fifth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2011)
Dec. 1-2, 2011
Sunport Hall Takamatsu,
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/sightseeing/eats/takamatsu-symbol-tower.html
Takamatsu,
http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/access/index.html
Kagawa, Japan

with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in
association with
Third JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2011)
http://ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2011/

**** Extended Submission Deadline: September 28, 2011 ****

**** Invited Speakers ****
(1) Bob Kowalski (Emeritus Professor, the Department of Computing of the 
Imperial College London)
(2) Syugo Hotta (Faculty of Law, Meiji University)

**** 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unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on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. except as a submission to JURIX 2011 (The 24th
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information
Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2011 is as follows:

1. Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2011 and JURIX2011 must note
this on the title page.
2. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2011 must be withdrawn from
JURIX2011 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 2011.

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 12 pages including
figures, references, etc.
If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format
designated at the workshop page, 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.

**** Proceedings ****

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

**** Post Proceedings****

The chair of JSAI-IsAI 2011 is now negotiating with Springer Verlag to
publish selected papers of the workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2011
post-proceedings 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 previous workshops were publisehd
as volumes of LNAI4914(JURISIN 2007), LNAI5447(JURISIN 2008),
LNAI6284(JURISIN 2009) and LNAI6797(JURISIN2010) respectively.

**** Financial Support for Students ****

We have received from JSAI partical economical support for travelling
costs for promising foreign students whose papers have been accepted
to be presented at JURISIN2011. The amount of the whole support is
250,000 yen and we divide it to students who need a support. The
actual support will vary based on the number of applicants and where
students come from. Please contact the chairperson (ksatoh at
nii.ac.jp) for details.

**** Important Dates ****

Submission Deadline: September 28, 2011 (extended)
Notification: October 25, 2011 (extended)
Camera Ready Copy due: November 5, 2011 (extended)
JURISIN 2011: December 1-2, 2011

**** Workshop Chair ****

Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

**** Organizing Committee Members ****

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, 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

**** Programme Committee Members ****

Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Katie Atkinson, The University of Liverpool, UK
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Tom Gordon, FOKUS Franfoher, Germany
Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Masahiro Kozuka, Kanazawa University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Radboud Winkels, The University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

**** Home page of JURISIN 2011 ****
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2011.html

**** preivous JURISIN workshops ****
JURISIN2007 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin.html
JURISIN2008 http://www.ntt.dis.titech.ac.jp/jurisin2008/
JURISIN2009 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2009.html
JURISIN2010 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2010.html

For any inquiry, please send it to "jurisin2011 at nii.ac.jp".