Calls for Papers: Workshops @ ICAIL 2011

Calls for papers, with diverse submission deadlines, have been issued for the workshops at ICAIL 2011: The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law; the workshops are scheduled to be held 6 and 10 June 2011, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

DESI IV: Workshop on Setting Standards for Searching Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings, 6 June 2011. Deadlines:

• 1 April 2011: Research papers;
• 22 April 2011: Position papers.

Workshop on Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law, 6 June 2011. Deadline:

• 14 March 2011.

Computational Law: A Bridge Towards the Business Rules, 6 June 2011. Deadline:

• 20 April 2011.

AI & Evidential Inference, 10 June 2011. Deadline:

• TBA

AHLTL 2011: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law, 10 June 2011. Deadline:

• 31 March 2011.

Coherence 2011: Artificial Intelligence, Coherence, and Judicial Reasoning, 10 June 2011. Deadlines:

• 15 April 2011: Abstracts;
• 3 June 2011: Full papers.

HT JURIX.

Call for Papers: AICOL 2011

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 16 May 2011 — has been issued for AICOL 2011: The Third Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Law, to be held 16 August 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The workshop is to be held in conjunction with IVR 2011: XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.

Papers for AICOL 2011 are invited on the following topics:

• Law and Science
• Law and Cognitive Science
• Law and Complexity Theory
• Complex Systems
• Legal Theory
• Legal Culture
• Computer Ethics
• Artificial Societies
• Argumentative Frameworks
• Legal Ontologies
• Legal Concepts
• Legal Thesauri
• Taxonomies
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Legal Knowledge Acquisition
• Legal Knowledge Representation
• Knowledge Management
• Cognitive schemas
• Law and Robotics
• Law and Mathematics
• Legal Graphic Representation
• Game Theory
• Formalization of Legal Systems and Norms
• Rules and Standards
• Agreement technologies
• Electronic Institutions
• Legal Information Retrieval
• Online Dispute Resolution
• Trends in e-Discovery, e-Courts, e-Administration
• Users’ studies

HT Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani.

Call for Papers: UKCBR 2010: UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 8 October 2010 — has been issued for UKCBR 2010: The 15th UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, to be held 14 December 2010 at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.

The workshop is collocated with AI 2010: SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Papers for UKCBR 2010 are invited on the following topics:

• the theory of CBR
• methods for case adaptation, indexing, retrieval, representation
• hybrid, agent based CBR systems
• CBR in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases
• knowledge acquisition, modelling, and management for CBR
• CBR in engineering, design, manufacturing
• CBR and the Internet
• e-Commerce applications of CBR
• CBR and human learning
• CBR in software engineering
• CBR in healthcare
• textual and Web CBR
• novel applications of CBR

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: PIC 2010: International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 10 August 2010 — has been issued for PIC 2010: The International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing, to be held 10-12 December 2010 in Shanghai, China.

Papers are invited on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, databases & information systems, software engineering, human-computer interaction and multimedia, pervasive and trustworthy computing, and applied informatics, including legal informatics, egovernment systems, and ecommerce systems.

For the complete list of topics, or for more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: LSPI 2010: International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law

A call for papers — with submission deadlines for papers of 10 September 2010 and for abstract presentations of 15 October 2010 — has been issued for LSPI 2010: International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law, to be held 3-5 November 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• “Cybercrime
• E-signatures
• E-forensics and Evidence
• Email monitoring and privacy issues in the workplace
• Data retention & protection
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Contract and Tort
• Virtual Companies
• E-commerce law
• Media & entertainment law
• Data mining
• Internet Freedom Phishing, virus, malware etc.
• Trustmarks Legal risks and protection strategies
• E-government & E-democracy
• Privacy, Virology and security issues
• Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
• Cloud computing
• Online gaming
• Mobile technology
• Robots & Intelligent agents
• Consumer Protection
• Cross-border ADR and Litigation
• Content Regulation and Liability Issues
• Telecommunication law and technology
• Licensing and franchising
• IT Outsourcing
• Taxation of cross-border transactions
• Jurisdictional barriers to regulation and enforcement
• E-trade
• Audio-visual technology
• Broadband technology
• Virtual worlds: regulation and taxation issues
• Biometrics
• Risk Management
• Brain Computer Interfaces”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

May 10, 2010: AMEC 2010: The 12th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce

AMEC 2010: The 12th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, will be held 10 May 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The workshop is being held in conjunction with AAMAS 2010, the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, being held 10-14 May 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Click here for the AMEC 2010 program.

Call for Papers: WICOW 2010

A call for papers, with extended submission deadline of 1 February 2010, has been issued for WICOW 2010: The 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web, to be held 27 April 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, in conjunction with The 19th International World Wide Web Conference.

Papers are invited on the following topics, which include digital legal information authentication and integrity, legal information behavior, legal rhetoric, and legal communication:

• Information credibility evaluation and its applications
• Web content analysis for credibility evaluation
• Web content quality
• Author’s intent detection
• Content quality and credibility in Web archiving
• Credibility of Web search results
• Search models for trustworthy content on the Web
• Conflicting opinion detection
• News credibility
• Multimedia content credibility
• Credibility evaluation of user-generated content (ex. Wikipedia, Q&A)
• Information credibility evaluation in social networks
• Analysis of information dissemination on the Web
• Spatial and temporal aspects in information credibility on the Web
• Information credibility theory and fundamentals
• Estimation of information age, provenance and validity
• Estimation of author’s and publisher’s reputation
• Sociological and psychological aspects of information credibility estimation
• Users study for information credibility evaluation
• Persuasive technologies
• Information credibility in online advertising
• Web spam detection
• Data consistency and provenance
• Processing uncertain data and information
• Modeling trust on the Web
• Credible interaction on the Web
• Credibility and trust in e-commerce

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Professor Adam Jatowt.

Lin & Kraus, Can Automated Agents Proficiently Negotiate With Humans?

Dr. Raz Lin and Professor Kraus Sarit, both of the Bar-Ilan University Computer Science Department, have published a review essay entitled Can Automated Agents Proficiently Negotiate With Humans?, Communications of the ACM (CACM), January 2010, at 78. Here is a summary:

In this article, the authors review current research on systems in which automated agents negotiate with humans. They “focus on the question of whether an automated agent can proficiently negotiate with human negotiators.” They “concentrate on adversarial bilateral bargaining in which the automated agent is matched with people.” The law-related systems discussed include various kinds of ecommerce as well as noneconomic bargaining.

Call for Papers: LIT 2010

[NOTE: Updated on 17 February 2010 to note that the submission deadline has been extended to 2 March 2010.]

A call for papers, with extended submission deadline of 2 March 2010, 7 February 2010 has been issued for LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, to be held 4 or 5 May 2010, in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with BIS 2010: The 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems. Papers are invited on the following topics:

• “Information extraction & categorization of legal documents
• Computational models for legal reasoning
• Information Technology & Dispute Resolution
• Information Technology & Crime Prevention
• Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law
• Knowledge management in the legal domain
• Legal argumentation
• Legal aspects of IT
• Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning
• Legal electronic agents
• Legal Expert Systems
• Legal ontologies – creation, use & lifecycles
• Legal reasoning and its computer representation
• Natural language processing in law
• Alternative & online Dispute Resolution
• Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services
• Risk management & trust in law
• Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government
• Semantic indexing of legal documents
• Specific legal domain[ applications] (systems in civil, tax, commercial, insurance law)
• Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law
• Text mining and knowledge extraction in law
• Validation of legal knowledge”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: IADIS 2010

[NOTE: Updated on 1 February 2010 to note that the submission deadline has been extended to 15 March 2010.]

A call for papers, with extended submission deadline of 15 March 2010 25 January 2010, has been issued for IADIS Intelligent Systems and Agents 2010 Conference, to be held 29-31 July 2010, in Freiburg, Germany.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Area 1 – Intelligent Systems
• Algorithms
• Artificial Intelligence
• Automation Systems and Control
• Bio Informatics
• Computational Intelligence
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy Technologies and Systems
• Game and Decision Theories
• Intelligent Control Systems
• Intelligent Internet Systems
• Intelligent Software Systems
• Intelligent Systems
• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks
• Neurocomputers
• Optimization
• Parallel Computation
• Pattern Recognition
• Robotics and Autonomous Robots
• Signal Processing
• Systems Modelling
• Web Mining
• Area 2 – Agents
• Adaptive Agent Systems
• Agent Applications
• Agent Communication
• Agent Development
• Agent middleware
• Agent Models and Architectures
• Agent Ontologies
• Agent Oriented Systems and Engineering
• Agent Programming, Languages and Environments
• Agent Systems
• Agent Technologies
• Agent Theories
• Agent Trends
• Agents Analysis and Design
• Agents and Learning
• Agents and Ubiquitous Computing
• Agents in Networks
• Agents Protocols and Standards
• Artificial Systems
• Computational Complexity
• eCommerce and Agents
• Embodied Agents
• Mobile Agents
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Negotiation Strategies
• Performance Issues
• Security, Privacy and Trust
• Semantic Grids
• Simulation
• Web Agents

For more information, please see the call for papers.