12th  International Conference                                       

on Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2009)

http://idt.uab.cat/icail2009/

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:

 

  • the study of legal reasoning using computational methods
  • the study of AI and other advanced information technologies, using law as an example domain
  • formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
  • legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced information technologies

 

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:

  • Formal and computational models of legal reasoning, argumentation, decision making and negotiation
  • Legal ontologies / representation of legal and related common sense knowledge
  • Evidential reasoning and its role in legal decision making
  • Modelling norms for multi-agent interaction, regulatory compliance, and electronic institutions
  • Modelling contract formation and other legal speech acts for electronic agents
  • Knowledge discovery in legal databases
  • Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
  • Automated extraction of information from legal texts
  • Computer-assisted legal drafting and document management
  • Intelligent legal tutoring systems
  • Judicial support systems
  • Online dispute resolution
  • Legal XML models and semantic web applications
  • Representation of quasi-legal norm-governed systems (e.g. e-commerce rules, organization rules and security regulations)

 

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.eduTel: +1-650-368-1297

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Carole Hafner (chair)

Northeastern University, USA

Vincent Aleven

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Kevin D. Ashley

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Katie Atkinson

University of Liverpool, UK

Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon

University of Liverpool, UK

Daničle Bourcier

CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France

L. Karl Branting

MITRE, Hanover MD USA

Joost Breuker

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pompeu Casanovas

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Jack G. Conrad

Thomson Reuters, St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Anne Gardner

Atherton, California, USA

Thomas F. Gordon

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

Guido Governatori

NICTA, Australia

Peter Jackson

Thomson Reuters, St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Andrew J.I. Jones

King's College London, UK

Marc Lauritsen

Capstone Practice Systems, Harvard, MA USA

Arno Lodder

VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

L. Thorne McCarty

Rutgers University, USA

Marie-Francine Moens

KU Leuven, Belgium

Anja Oskamp

VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Monica Palmirani

University of Bologna, Italy

Henry Prakken

Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Edwina Rissland

University of Massachusetts, USA

Giovanni Sartor

University of Bologna, Italy

Burkhard Schafer

Edinburgh University, UK

Uri Schild

Bar Ilan University, Israel

Marek J. Sergot

Paul Thompson

Imperial College, UK

Dartmouth College, USA

Tom M. van Engers

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bart Verheij

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Radboud Winkels

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

John Zeleznikow

Victoria University, Australia