call for papers: JURISIN2014

[Satoshi Tojo]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2014)

date: November 23 - 24, 2014
venue: Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan
Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014

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 We solicit unpublished papers on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.

Topics

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 ubiquitous computing / multi-agent system / the Internet
    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

Special Topics for JURISIN 2014

    Bar exam competition (TBA)

Invited Speakers

(TBA)
Submissions: We will open the submission site via EasyChair shortly.

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 2014 (The 27th International
Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double
submission policy with JURIX 2014 is as follows:

    Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2014 and JURIX2014 must note
this on the title page.
    A paper to be presented at JURISIN2014 must be withdrawn from
JURIX2014 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 2014.

Post Proceedings: We are under negotiation with Springer Verlag on
publishing selected papers.

Workshop Chair

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Organizing Committee Members

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), 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

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI), Korea
Minghui Xiong, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Minghui Ma, Southwest University, China
Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Philip T H Chung, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Australia
Masahiro Kozuka, Okayama University, Japan
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Baosheng Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law, China

We are still negotiating with other JURISIN 2013 PC members.

Home page of JURISIN 2014
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/org/jurisin2014/
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Satoshi Tojo
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)