Call for Papers: Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law: Computational Methods for Enforcing Privacy and Fairness

Dr. Anne Gardner of IAAIL informs us of the following call:

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law

Computational Methods for Enforcing Privacy and Fairness in the Knowledge Society

Full Call for Papers:
http://enforce.di.unipi.it/specialissue.pdf

We invite contributions on methodologies, techniques, algorithms, and tools in support of the analysis or of the enforcement of privacy, non-discrimination, and other personal rights in ICT systems for the knowledge society. Special focus is on multi-disciplinary approaches on the following, non-exhaustive, list of topics, and that relate to Artificial Intelligence and Law:

- Methods for enforcing data privacy and anonymity
- Methods for data portability, and for the right to oblivion
- Methods for data protection and law enforcement
- Privacy by-design in intelligent systems
- Privacy-preserving data mining
- Privacy policies in social networks
- Context-aware location privacy
- Methods for unbiased data collection and processing
- Methods for enforcing fairness in profiling and targeting
- Methods for discrimination discovery from data
- Statistical measures of discrimination
- Methods for discrimination prevention in data mining
- Computational argumentation in discrimination analysis
- Design of (quasi-)experimental methods
- Computational models of segregation in social networks
- Computational models of evidential reasoning
- Tools and systems, with case studies

Important Dates:

Preliminary abstract submission: 15 January 2013
Paper submission: 15 April 2013
First notification: June 2013
Revised paper submission: July 2013
Final decision: October 2013
Special issue (planned): December 2013

Call for Papers: ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

A call for papers — with paper submission deadline of 18 January 2013 — has been issued for ICAIL 2013: 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 10-14 June 2013 in Rome, Italy.

The Twitter account for the conference is @ICAIL2013 . The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #ICAIL2013. The conference organizers invite those interested to follow the Twitter account and hashtag and to comment and contribute with the latest news.

The conference features two tracks: one for “regular papers” and one for “innovative applications papers.”

Here is the complete list of deadlines:

• Mentoring program request deadline: November 9, 2012
• Mentoring program paper deadline: November 16, 2012
• Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 7, 2012
• Submission of abstracts (optional): January 11, 2013
• Submission of papers deadline: January 18, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2013
• Final revised and formatted papers due: April 19, 2013
• Conference: June 10 – June 14, 2013

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
• Computational models of argumentation and decision making
• Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
• Automatic legal text classification and summarization
• Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases
• Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
• E-discovery and e-disclosure
• E-government and e-justice
• Computational models of evidential reasoning
• Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
• Modeling negotiation and contract formation
• Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
• Online dispute resolution
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Anne Gardner

[NOTE: Updated 23 November 2012 to add the Twitter account and hashtag. HT Enrico Francesconi]

Bex and Walton: Burdens and Standards of Proof for Inference to the Best Explanation: Three Case Studies

Dr. Floris J. Bex of The University of Dundee Argumentation Research Group, and Professor Dr. Douglas Walton of the University of Windsor Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, have published Burdens and standards of proof for inference to the best explanation: three case studies, forthcoming in Law, Probability, and Risk.

Here is the abstract:

In this article, we provide a formal logical model of evidential reasoning with proof standards and burdens of proof, which enables us to evaluate evidential reasoning by comparing stories on either side of a case. It is based on a hybrid inference model that combines argumentation and explanation, using inference to the best explanation as the central form of argument. The model is applied to one civil case and two criminal cases. It is shown to have some striking implications for modelling and using traditional proof standards like preponderance of the evidence and beyond reasonable doubt.