12th
International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2009)
2nd Call for Papers
(with extended deadline)
June 8 – June 12,
2009
Autonomous University
of Barcelona, Spain
Sponsored by:
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
(IAAIL)
Autonomous University of Barcelona
ISOCO, Intelligent Software Components S.A.
Thomson Reuters
In cooperation with AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence)
The field of AI and Law is
concerned with:
ICAIL 2009 will be held under the auspices of the
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization
devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and Law with
members throughout the world. ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and
discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and
stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL
conferences have been held biennially since 1987, with proceedings published by
ACM.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted
to:
Papers proposing formal or computational models
should provide examples and/or simulations that show the model’s applicability
to a real legal problem or domain. Papers on applications should describe
clearly the motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the
current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make
clear their relation to prior work.
DONALD H. BERMAN AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
To
encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman
Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or students. The award
consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2009. Notification
will be made through the ICAIL web site, and the award will be presented at the
conference banquet. For a paper to be considered for the award, the
student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted,
and any nonstudent co-authors should provide a statement that the paper is
primarily student work.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission
of abstracts (optional): January 11, 2009
Submission of papers deadline: January 20, 2009
(revised from January 11, 2009)
Notification
of acceptance: March 23, 2009
Final
revised and formatted papers due: April 20, 2009
Conference:
June 8 – June 12, 2009
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers
should not exceed 5000 words. If an approved style file is used, the maximum
length is 10 pages To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to
submit abstracts of their papers by January 11, 2009, to the conference
system. Abstracts should include at least the title of the paper, up to
four keywords, and a contact address for the author.
Papers
should be submitted electronically by means of the conference support system
that can be found on http://www.conftool.net/icail2009 by January 20, in PDF or MS Word
format.
Authors
will be notified of the referees’ decision by March 23, 2009. Papers not
accepted for full publication and presentation may be accepted as short
Research Abstracts. Papers (including Research Abstracts) must be presented at
the conference in order to appear in the Proceedings.
Final
versions of papers for publication in the Proceedings will be due by April 20,
2009, and must conform to the ACM Conference Proceedings style guidelines. Style format template files can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
Program
Chair
Carole Hafner
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University, Room 202 WVH
Boston MA 02115 USA
Email: hafner@ccs.neu.edu
Tel: +1-617-373-5116
Conference
Chair
Pompeu Casanovas
UAB Institute of Law and Technology
Political Science and Public Law Department
Campus UAB. Edifici B. Facultat de Dret
08193 Bellaterra. Barcelona. Spain.
Email: pompeu.casanovas@uab.es
Tel: +34 93 581 22 35
Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Gardner
286 Selby Lane, Atherton,
California 94027, USA
Email: gardner@cs.stanford.edu. Tel: +1-650-368-1297
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Northeastern University, USA |
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Kevin D. Ashley |
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Katie Atkinson |
University of Liverpool, UK |
Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon |
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Daničle Bourcier |
CNRS CERSA, |
L. Karl Branting |
MITRE, Hanover MD USA |
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Pompeu Casanovas |
Autonomous |
Jack G. Conrad |
Thomson Reuters, St. Paul, Minnesota USA |
Anne Gardner |
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Thomas F. Gordon |
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Guido Governatori |
NICTA, |
Peter Jackson |
Thomson Reuters, |
Andrew J.I. Jones |
King's College |
Marc Lauritsen |
Capstone Practice Systems, Harvard, MA |
Arno Lodder |
VU Amsterdam, The
Netherlands |
L. Thorne McCarty |
Rutgers University, USA |
Marie-Francine Moens |
KU |
Anja Oskamp |
VU Amsterdam, The
Netherlands |
Monica Palmirani |
University of Bologna, Italy |
Henry Prakken |
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Edwina Rissland |
University of Massachusetts, |
Giovanni Sartor |
University of Bologna, |
Burkhard Schafer |
Edinburgh University, UK |
Uri Schild |
Bar Ilan University, |
Marek J. Sergot Paul Thompson |
Dartmouth College, USA |
Tom M. van Engers |
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Radboud Winkels |
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
John Zeleznikow |
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