Argumentation Technology

Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology

2011-12-05T04:06:00.001-08:00

The European Erasmus Mundo program is sponsoring a joint international doctoral degree in law and technology, including scholarships to provide some financial support to students admitted to the program.

COMMA 2012 Call for Papers

2011-11-18T08:13:00.001-08:00

The Call for Papers for the 2012 Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012) conference has been published. COMMA 2012 will take place in Vienna, September 10-12, 2012. The deadline for submissions is March 26, 2012.

Zeno Sources Now on GitHub

2011-10-04T06:53:00.001-07:00

The source code of the Zeno system is now available on GitHub. The code was previously available on the Berlios system but needed to be moved, since Berlios is being shut down at the end of 2011.

We The People, The White House's Petitioning System, is Now Online

2011-09-22T06:45:00.001-07:00

I just learned from Alexander Howard on Google+ that the White House has officially launched its We the People online petitioning system.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on eParticipation - Information Systems Management Journal

2011-09-22T04:53:00.001-07:00

This Special Issue of ‘Information Systems Management’ solicits original high quality papers about European research on electronic citizen participation and engagement in public policy making’. Topics of interest in this area include, but are not limited to:

Innovative forms of ICT use for supporting and enhancing citizens’ participation
Advanced systems for structured high quality deliberation
Social media platforms and their applications for supporting citizens’ participation
Textual analysis technologies, ontologies and taxonomies
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
Data and argument visualization technologies
Federated content syndication systems for public participation
Trend monitoring and policy analysis
Policy modeling and impact assessment
Data-powered collective intelligence and action
Studying the impact and the overall value proposition of e-Participation
Methods for the evaluation of e-Participation
Serious Games, simulation and virtual worlds for supporting policy making
Case studies from e-Participation and e-Consultation
Theoretical aspects towards a scientific base for ICT enabled Governance

Guest Editors

Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark

Schedule

Submission deadline: November 15, 2011
Completion of first review: January 15, 2012
Revisions deadline: March 15, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: April 15, 2012
Tentative publication: Fall 2012

Call for Papers: Jurix Workshop on Modelling Policy-making

2011-09-22T02:06:00.001-07:00

JURIX Workshop on Modelling Policy-making (MPM 2011)

September 18th, 2011

Vienna, Austria

in conjunction with

The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2011)

December 12 or 13 (TBA), 2011

Context

As the European Union develops, issues about governance, legitimacy, and transparency become more pressing. Increasingly, national governments and the EU Commission realise the need to promote deliberative, distributive democracy, where citizens participate in the policy cycle, which has several phases: 1) agenda setting, 2) policy analysis, 3) lawmaking, 4) administration and implementation, and 5) monitoring. As governments need to become more efficient and effective with the resouces available, modern information and communications technology (ICT) are being drawn on to address some of these issues. One of the key problems is policy content analysis and modelling, particularly the gap between policy proposals and formulations, expressed in quantitative and narrative forms, and formal models that can be used to systematically represent and reason with the information contained in the proposals and formulations.

Submission Focus

The workshop invites submissions of original research about the application of ICT to the early phases of the policy cycle, namely those before the legislation is fixed by the legislators: agenda setting, policy analysis, and lawmaking. The research should seek to address the gap noted above. The workshop focusses particularly on using and integrating a range of subcomponents – information extraction, processing, representation, modelling, simulation, reasoning, and argument – to provide policy making tools to the public and public administrators.

Intended Audience

Legal professionals, government administrators, political scientists, and computer scientists.

Areas of Interest

information extraction from natural language text
policy ontologies
formal logical representations of policies
transformations from policy language to executable policy rules
argumentation about policy proposals
web-based tools that support participatory policy-making
tools for increasing public understanding of arguments behind policy decisions
visualising policies and arguments about policies
computational models of policies and arguments about policies
integration tools
multi-agent policy simulations

Important Dates

Submission: Monday, October 24
Review Notification: Monday, November 7
Final Version: Monday, November 28
Workshop Date: in the week of December 12

Author Guidelines

Submit position papers of between 2-5 pages in length in PDF format and using the IOS Press style ﬁles and authors’ guidelines at: IOS Press Author Instructions
Submit papers to: MPM 2011 on EasyChair
Publication: A call for selected extended versions of the papers will be issued for a special issue of AI and Law on Modelling Policy-making.

Program Committee Cochairs

Adam Wyner (University of Liverpool, UK)
Neil Benn (University of Leeds, UK)

Program Committee (Preliminary)

Katie Atkinson
Trevor Bench-Capon
Bruce Edmonds
Tom van Engers
Euripidis Loukis
Tom Gordon
Ann Macintosh
Maria Wimmer
Radboud Winkels

The Echo Project

2011-09-07T01:06:00.001-07:00

The Echo project is developing an open source e-participation platform for supporting “cross-language” policy dialogues on the Web, based on the Issue-Based Information Systems (IBIS) model of argument. A beta version of the Echo system is online and open to the public and includes example argument maps and pilot projects. The goals and approach of the Echo project are similar in some ways to those of our IMPACT project.

Open Government Partnership Announced

2011-08-31T03:27:00.001-07:00

An Open Government Partnership was announced in July by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota. The aim of the partnership is to “secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.”

Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy

2011-08-04T00:07:00.001-07:00

Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy as Dispute Resolution in Healthcare Reform: A Work in Progress
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown University Law Center; University of California Irvine, School of Law
July 25, 2011

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 74, pp. 1-30, 2011
UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-31

Abstract

This essay explores how application of deliberative democracy and conflict resolution theories expose how the town hall meetings conducted on debates about recent American healthcare reform were poorly managed. The article suggests that for truly deliberative democracy to work, theory and practice must take account of three forms of discourse: rational-principled, bargaining-trading (utilitarian) and affective, emotional and value-based discourses. The article explores deliberative democracy and conflict resolution theory (e.g., Habermas, Hampshire), contrasts these to more nuanced analyses of what is possible in political deliberation processes (Elster, Sen, and Fishkin, among others) and describes how the town hall meetings were poorly executed in practice. Suggestions are offered for both theoretical issues (how are professional process experts, e.g. facilitators of consensus building fora to be justified in democratic theory) and practical variations on process themes, in the hopes that well structured and variable processes might still be designed and utilized for facilitating productive participation in the polity and more “consensus-seeking,” and better and more flexible policy outcomes, even in highly contested political issues.

The moral controversy about Climate Engineering - an argument map

2011-07-28T03:08:00.001-07:00

Betz, G., & Cacean, S. (2011). The moral controversy about Climate Engineering – an argument map.
Retrieved from http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000022371

Commercial Vendors of Rule Engines for the Legal Domain

2011-07-25T02:07:00.001-07:00

Marc Lauritsen recently informed me about a US vendor of a web-based rule engine designed specifically for the legal domain, Neota Logic in New York, so now I am aware of three such products:

Oracle Policy Automation. This is the product developed initially by the Australian company, SoftLaw, founded by Peter Johnson. The company changed its name a couple of times (Ruleburst, Haley), before it was purchased by Oracle not too long ago.
BeInformed. This is the rule-based inference engine used by the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Neota Logic. One interesting feature of this system is its support for multiple reasoning methods, including some form of case-based reasoning.

Lauritsen on Technological Approaches to the Practice of Law

2011-07-19T07:01:00.001-07:00

Marc Lauritsen, Esq., of Capstone Practice Systems has published Five Tips for Prospering in an Age of Legal Fee Deflation, TechnoLawyer, 7 June 2011. In this article. Mr. Lauritsen discusses how a range of law practice technologies, and problem-solving frameworks derived from computer science, can be applied in current legal practice settings, including the access to justice context.

Mr. Lauritsen also recently presented his paper, Intelligent Tools for Managing Legal Choices, at the ICAIL 2011 conference. The paper describes his innovative “Choiceboxing” legal decision support system. The approach is described further in the “Choosing Smarter” chapter of Mr. Lauritsen’s 2010 book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools.

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Call for Papers: Workshop Legal Informatics 2011

2011-07-07T01:42:00.001-07:00

FTRI 2011 – Workshop Legal Informatics 2011 – Legal Information & Advanced Applications in Law

Wednesday 14 December 2011, University of Vienna
Organised within JURIX 2011, 14-16 December 2011, University of Vienna

Call for Papers

The Workshop Legal Informatics (FTRI) aims to promote a pioneering dialogue between science and practice on technical questions of law in the knowledge society. At the international level, the conferences ICAIL and JURIX exist for many years as platforms for the presentation of scientific results on information systems and applications in AI & law. This FTRI – which takes place before the JURIX conference – should support and strengthen the cooperation between the German and the JURIX groups on AI & law research.
The digitalization and computerization of working places of lawyers is moving on. In technology-friendly law firms already up to 7% of the costs are caused by IT & legal information. This reflects the importance of IT in the legal environment. The supply of information is ensured by external and internal, free or pay information systems. The abundance of materials requires the improvement of searching as well as the ranking of search results. Semantic structuring, starting with electronic filing, is becoming the standard. This paves the way for the use of support systems that do more and more certain activities independently. Therefore, the next phase of the computerization of law is before the doors: IT should not only support the delivery of legal services, but also – semi-automatically or automatically – provide legal services itself. In the current transitional phase, the collaboration of man and machine is a decisive factor. The FTRI should show the state of the art and identify the lines of development.
Contributions are welcome on the following topics:

Legal information
Electronic data collection and analysis
Modern search technologies, access to information, “Google” of law
Analysis of existing legal information systems
Methods of search support (search suggestions, automated improvements, etc.)
Ranking according to structures, content, time, importance, etc.
Semantic legal information systems
“question answering” systems
Semantic Mark-up vs. structured information retrieval
XML standards for legal documents
Advanced informatics systems in law
Knowledge representation in the law: assistance for the acquisition, management and use of legal knowledge by means of legal ontologies, semantic web, computer-supported formal methods in law, intelligent agents, etc.
Support for attorneys in the drafting of documents, negotiations, legal reasoning, support for legislation and policy development, support for the judiciary (and management) in the application of the law, the analysis of evidence, case management, support for the security police, forensic investigations, etc.
Legal reasoning and legal argumentation, alternative dispute resolution (especially online), etc.
Advanced software packages in the law firm or notary

Deadlines

Deadline for submissions for review: 30 September 2011
Deadline for abstracts / practice presentations of about 1-2 pages (without contribution to the proceedings): 15 October 2011
Notification of acceptance: 25 October 2011
Submission of camera ready papers for the electronic proceedings: 15 November 2011. Submissions should be uploaded exclusively via the conference management system.

Guidelines for submissions from academia and practice

The contributions of the conference will be published electronically in the journal Jusletter IT (http://jusletter-it.eu). The length of the contributions is limited to 4 (short papers), or 8 pages. Abstracts will be included in the summary of the workshop. We request that only the style sheets available on the website are used for writing the papers.

Conference organizers

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer (spokesman of the Legal Informatics Group of the German Society for Informatics GI) , University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe (German Society for Law and Informatics), University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon (Deputy Speaker of the GI group on legal and administrative informatics)), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin

Organizer

GI German Society for Informatics, Group on Legal Informatics
In co-operation with: – DGRI German Society for Law and Informatics – OCG Working Group on legal Informatics – Centre for Legal Informatics, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna

Participation fees

Participants: 100 Euros
OCG / GI / DGRI members: 80 Euros
Authors / presenters: 80 Euros
Members of the Programme Committee: 80 Euros
PhD students upon presentation of a subscription: 50 Euros

Program Committee (Preliminary)

Dr. Pascale Berteloot, Amt für Veröffentlichungen, Luxembourg
Prof. Dr. Walter Blocher, Universität Kassel
Dr. Colette R. Brunschwig, Universität Zürich
Mag. Anton Geist, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Prof. Dr. Herbert Fiedler, Uni Bonn
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Matthias Grabmair, University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann, Universität Passau
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, Universität Münster
Prof. Dr. Sayeed Klewitz-Hommelsen, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Doz. Dr. Ralph Knackstedt, Universität Münster
Mag. Peter Kustor, Bundeskanzleramt Wien
Direktor Franz Kummer, Weblaw
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lachmayer, Universität Innsbruck
Dr. Doris Liebwald
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Lück-Schneider, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht
Prof. Dr. Alexander Prosser, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerald Quirchmayr, Universität Wien
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Riedl, FH Bern
Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel, Universität Kassel
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer, Edinburgh University, UK
Dr. Günther Schefbeck, Parlament Wien
Dr. Martin Schneider, Justizministerium, Wien
Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, Universität Wien
Prof. DI Mag. Dr. Michael Sonntag, Universität Linz
Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Taeger, Universität Oldenburg
Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller, Universität Linz
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Maria A. Wimmer, Universität Koblenz-Landau

Call for Papers: JURISIN 2011

2011-06-28T07:22:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: Fifth International Workshop on Juris-informatics(JURISIN 2011)
Dec. 1-2, 2011
Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in association with the Third JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2011)

Submission Deadline: September 21, 2011

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 for juris-informatics 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:

Legal reasoning
Argumentation/Argumentation agent
Legal term ontology
Formal legal knowledge-base/Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
Translation of legal documents
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

Submissions

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 2011 (The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2011 is as follows:

Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2011 and JURIX2011 must note this on the title page.
A paper to be presented at JURISIN2011 must be withdrawn from JURIX2011 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 2011.

Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form , which can be obtained from http://www.springeronline.com, and not exceed 12 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format designated at the workshop page, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page.

If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop and present it.

Proceedings

A printed volume of the proceedings with ISBN will be available at the workshop.

Post Proceedings

The chair of JSAI-IsAI 2011 is now negotiating with Springer Verlag to publish selected papers of the workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2011 post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI. If it is the case, the authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings, after another round of refereeing.

Note that the selected papers of the previous workshops were published as volumes of LNAI4914(JURISIN 2007), LNAI5447(JURISIN 2008), LNAI6284(JURISIN 2009) and LNAI6797(JURISIN2010) respectively.

Financial Support for Students

We have received from JSAI partial economical support for traveling costs for promising foreign students whose papers have been accepted to be presented at JURISIN2011. The amount of the whole support is 250,000 yen and we divide it to students who need a support. The actual support will vary based on the number of applicants and where students come from. Please contact the chairperson (ksatoh at nii.ac.jp) for details.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: September 21, 2011
Notification: October 21, 2011
Camera Ready Copy due: November 1, 2011
JURISIN 2011: December 1-2, 2011

Workshop Chairs

Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

Organizing Committee Members

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Programme Committee Members

Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Katie Atkinson, The University of Liverpool, UK
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Masahiro Kozuka, Kanazawa University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Radboud Winkels, The University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

Home page of JURISIN 2011:

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2011.html

Previous JURISIN workshops

JURISIN2007 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin.html
JURISIN2008 http://www.ntt.dis.titech.ac.jp/jurisin2008/
JURISIN2009 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2009.html
JURISIN2010 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2010.html

For any inquiry, please send it to “jurisin2011 at nii.ac.jp”.

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011

2011-06-23T02:08:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011
The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

University of Vienna, Austria, 14th-16th December 2011
http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/JURIX2011/

The JURIX conference has been running annually for over 20 years and provides an international forum for both academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics to meet and share their research and ideas to advance the field of legal knowledge systems.

The 24th edition of JURIX will be hosted by the University of Vienna. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
Retrieval of legal information;
Legal education;
Digital-rights management;
Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
Legal inference and argumentation;
Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
Management of legal information in the semantic web;
XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is September 5th, 2011. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site. Workshops and a selection of conference papers will be published in the electronic journal Jusletter IT.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email.

Programme Chair: Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK.

Local Organisation Chair: Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria in co-operation with University of Brno, Czech Republic and Austrian Computer Society OCG, Vienna.

Important Dates:

Submissions of papers: Monday 5th September 2011
Proposals for workshops and tutorials: Monday 12th September 2011
Notification of acceptance: Late September 2011
Camera-ready copies: Mid-October 2011
Conference: 14th-16th December 2011

JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

Call for Papers: FTVI 2012 & FTRI 2012

2011-06-22T02:50:00.001-07:00

FTVI 2012 & FTRI 2012
Staat und Verwaltung auf dem Weg zu einer offenen, smarten und vernetzten Verwaltungskultur
Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik und Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik
15.-16. März 2012 in Friedrichshafen
http://www.ftvi.de/

Die Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik (FTVI) und die Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik (FTRI) haben zum Ziel, einen richtungsweisenden Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Verwaltungspraktikern, Rechtspraktikern und Beratern zu fördern, indem Konzepte und Erfahrungen analysiert sowie Umsetzungsstrategien aufgezeigt werden. Die FTVI wird alle zwei Jahre von der Fachgruppe Verwaltungsinformatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik ausgerichtet. Die FTRI wird 2012 zum zweiten Mal gemeinsam mit der FTVI ausgerichtet. 2012 stehen die 9. FTVI und die 2. FTRI unter dem gemeinsamen Motto: „Staat und Verwaltung auf dem Weg zu einer offenen, smarten und vernetzten Verwaltungskultur“. Die Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik und die Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik setzen sich mit den folgenden Themenfeldern aus einer technischen, rechtlichen, ökonomischen, verwaltungswissenschaftlichen und politischen Sicht auseinander:

Öffnung von Staat und Verwaltung (Open Government und Good Governance)
Offene, smarte und vernetzte Verwaltung
Politische und rechtliche Vorgaben für Staat und Verwaltung

Nähere Details zu den Schwerpunktthemen, die Richtlinien für Einreichungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis sowie Informationen zum Programmkommitee, den Veranstaltern, Mitveranstaltern, Kooperationspartner finden Sie im Anhang sowie unter www.ftvi.de.

Fristen:

Einreichfrist für Beiträge zur Begutachtung (Publikation in LNI): 15.9.2011
Einreichfrist für Praxisvorträge (ohne schriftliche Abfassung für den Tagungsband): 15.10.2011
Benachrichtigung über Annahme von Beiträgen und Praxisvorträgen: 07.11.2011
Einreichung der druckfertigen Beiträge für den Tagungsband: 15.12.2011

Einreichungen werden ausschließlich über das Konferenzmanagementsystem unter www.ftvi.de entgegen genommen.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Einreichungen!

Für die Konferenzorganisatoren:
Prof. Dr. Jörn von Lucke, (Sprecher des FA VI), Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
Prof. Dr. Maria Wimmer (Sprecherin des FB RVI der GI), Universität Koblenz-Landau
Dr. Siegfried Kaiser (ehemaliger stv. Sprecher der FG VI), ITOB GmbH
Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer (Sprecher des FA RI), Universität Wien, Österreich
Christian Geiger, M.A., Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen

Call for Participation: RuleML 2011@IJCAI

2011-05-21T08:01:00.001-07:00

5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based, Industry Focused
Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 July 2011
http://2011.ruleml.org/europe/

The RuleML conference is collocated with the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011).

Carneades has moved to Github

2011-05-17T04:31:00.001-07:00

The source code of the Carneades argumentation system is now hosted on GitHub.

Deadline extension: AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

2011-05-05T02:13:00.001-07:00

AICOL 2011
Half day Workshop of the XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 15-16 AUGUST 2011

Call for papers

Objectives

After a first experience in Beijing (IVR XXIV – September 15-20, 2009 Beijing,China), and the successful second edition in Rotterdam (JURIX-09 – Rotterdam, November 16-18, The Netherlands) we are now announcing the third edition of AICOL (AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems) as a thematic workshop of the IVR XXV Frankfurt am Main,15-20 August 2011.
Work on Artificial Intelligence and Law has been particularly fruitful in the last decade. Besides providing advanced computer applications for the legal domain such as knowledge based systems and intelligent information retrieval, research on AI and law has developed innovative interdisciplinary models for understanding legal systems and legal reasoning, which are highly significant for philosophy of law and legal theory.
Among such models, we can mention, for instance, logical frameworks for defeasible legal reasoning and dialectical argumentation, logics of normative positions, theories of case-based reasoning,and computable models of legal concepts. Today there is a strong need not only to integrate research in AI and law within legal theory, but also to encompass the different branches of research in AI and law. When different branches are developing quickly, the risk is in fact missing the opportunities to exchange knowledge and methodologies.
This is particularly so in the case of ‘multiagent systems’-approach and social network analysis, that share concepts and objects of study, but often present merely superficial convergences in practice as well as in theory.
Multilingual ontologies provide an important opportunity for integrating different trends of research in AI and law. The domain of multi-system and multi-lingual ontologies not only offers the opportunity to integrate artificial intelligence with legal theory, but also with comparative legal studies. Complexity theory,graph theory, game theory and any other contributions from the mathematics disciplines could help both to formalize the dynamics of legal systems and to capture the relationships between norms. Cognitive science could help the legal ontology modelling by taking into account not only the formal features of the law, but social behaviour, subjective beliefs, and cultural factors as well.
The aim of the workshop is thus to offer effective support for the exchange of knowledge and methodological approaches between scholars from different scientific fields, by highlighting their similarities and differences.
We are expecting to have contributions that are able to capture this interdisciplinary aspect and prepare the scientific community to a common ground beyond the state of the art of any individual discipline.

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

Important Dates

Paper submission: NEW DEADLINE! June 1st 2011
Peer Review Communications: July 6th, 2011
Camera Ready: July 30th, 2011
AICOL Workshop: August 16th, 2011
Publication: November/December 2011 (LNAI volume)

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments.

Papers must be in English and may be submitted using Easychair

Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
Min. 3000 words and max. 15000 words.

Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format. To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Publications

The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

Program Chairs

Danièle Bourcier (CERSA-CNRS, Paris, France)
Pompeu Casanovas (UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Barcelona, Spain)
Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID – University of Bologna, Italy)
Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin, Italy)
Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy)

Journal of Logic and Computation: Special Issue on 20 Years of Argument-Based Inference

2011-05-03T05:44:00.001-07:00

Forwarded

From: Massimiliano Giacomin
Date: April 22, 2011 3:34:33 PM GMT+02:00

Special Issue JLC: 20 years of argument-based inference
-------------------------------------------------------

The field of formal argumentation can be traced back to work published
in the early nineties, such as that of Pollock, Simari and Loui, and
Vreeswijk. A major impulse was given by the work of Dung, who proved
that various formalisms for nonmonotonic entailment could be seen as
instances of abstract argumentation theory.

The aim of the special issue is to publish high level work on the topic
of how the argumentation paradigm can be used to define meaningful
ways of logical inference. We solicit original work on topics including,
but not limited to:

- using the argumentation paradigm to simulate other (existing)
approaches for nonmonotonic inference
- rationality postulates and how to satisfy them
- defining meaningful instantiations of abstract argumentation approaches
- the handling of defeasible priorities between arguments, in the
context of logical inference
- philosophical and/or psychological aspects of argument-based inference
- argument-based inference using a combination of (defeasible) argument
schemes and classical logic
- argument-based inference versus other approaches (like paraconsistent
logic, classical NMR)

Work that restricts itself to pure abstract argumentation, without relatingto the notion of logical inference, is considered to be outside the scope of the special issue.Such work will be diverted as an ordinary submission to the argumentation cornerof the Journal of Logic and Computation.

We encourage submissions of high quality, original papers which are not
simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.Instructions for submitting papers can be found at http://jlcabi11.ing.unibs.it/

Reviewing will take place according to the standards common at JLC.
Authors will be able to keep part of the copyright, so that their work
can also be published by other means (for instance as book chapters),
after the special issue has appeared.

Important dates:
- submissions due for review: 1 October 2011
- notification of 1st decision: 15 January 2012
- revisions due: 1 March 2012
- notification of acceptance: 1 April 2012
- final version due: 1 May 2012
- issue publication: late 2012

Special issue editors:
- Martin Caminada
- Massimiliano Giacomin

Analyzing Open Source License Compatibility Issues with Carneades

2011-04-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

I will be presenting the following very short paper about a copyright application of Carneades at ICAIL 2011 in Pittsburgh in June.

Gordon, T.F. Analyzing Open Source License Compatibility Issues with Carneades. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-2011), ACM Press (2011), in press.

Abstract. The Carneades software system provides support for constructing, evaluating and visualizing arguments, using formal representations of facts, concepts, defeasible rules and argumentation schemes. This paper illustrates features of Carneades with a prototype legal application for analyzing open source software license compatibility issues in particular cases. The Carneades system provides a unique combination of features that make to our knowledge applications of this kind possible for the first time.

Relating Carneades with abstract argumentation

2011-04-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

Bas van Gijzel and Henry Prakken will present a full paper on formal relationships between Carneades, ASPIC and Dung's Abstract Argumentation Framework at the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011) in Barcelona, Spain, which will take place in July, 2011. It is formally proven that Carneades argument evaluation structures can be viewed as instantiations of a Dung Abstract Argumentation Framework which have a unique extension that is the same in all Dung semantics. The proof is constructed by translating Carneades argument evaluation structures into ASPIC+, a structured argumentation formalism from Prakken with a well understood formal relationship to Dung Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. In addition, this work shows another way to generalize Carneades to handle argument
evaluation structures with cycles, in a way similar to Gerd Brewka's 2010 proposal using his Abstract Dialectical Frameworks.

Visit Henry Prakken's website for further details and information about how to download the full paper.

Carneades Editor Version 1.0.0

2011-03-31T05:17:00.000-07:00

Version 1.0.0 of the Carneades Editor has been released and can be downloaded here. Changes since the previous release include:

- keyboard shortcut, ctrl+Q, for quitting the application
- update of the installation instructions
- context menu for changing premises types and polarities
- context menu for changing arguments direction
- changed terminology of the sort in the Find Positions Assistant
- LKIF extended to handle domains and existential quantifiers
- better MacOS integration
- various bug fixes

Call for Papers: Open Government

2011-03-17T04:00:00.000-07:00

A workshop on "Open Government" will take place June 6, 2011 in Berlin, during the Informatik 2011 conference of the German Society for Informatics (GI). See the Call for Papers for further information.

New York Times: Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

2011-03-08T22:44:00.000-08:00

The New York Times published an article today entitled "Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software", about methods from Artificial Intelligence enabling e-discovery applications which can "analyze documents in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost."

Foundations of Argumentation Technology

2011-03-01T05:20:00.000-08:00

A copy of my cumulative "Habilitation" thesis, entitled "Foundations of Argumentation Technology", is now available on my web site. The thesis was submitted in 2009 and has been reviewed, but the Habilitation process is not quite complete yet. A couple of lectures remain.

Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS 2011)

2011-02-01T05:26:00.000-08:00

The "Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion" (IRIS 2011) will take place in Salzburg, Austria, February 24-26, 2011. Further information can be found on the IRIS 2011 homepage.

Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11)

2011-01-22T05:39:00.000-08:00

The Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) will take place in Barcelona, July 16-21, 2011. Paper are due shortly, on January 24, 2011. See the IJCAI-11 conference website for further information.

AAAI-11 Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA)

2011-01-21T01:48:00.000-08:00

The 11th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA), being organized by Floriana Gross, Nancy Green and Chris Reed, will take place in conjunction with the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), which will take place in San Francisco from August 6-11, 2011. Workshop papers are due April 22, 2011.

Call for Papers: RuleML 2011 at IJCAI

2011-01-19T04:57:00.001-08:00

The 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML) will take place July 19-21, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain in conjunction with the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAIL). Abstracts are due February 25, 2011; full papers are due March 4, 2011. Accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
For further information visit the RuleML 2011 website.

First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA-2011)

2011-01-18T05:48:00.000-08:00

The First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA-2011) will take place July 16, 2011, during the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Barcelona, Spain. Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNAI post-proceedings. Submissions are due March 14, 2011. See the workshop website for further information.

ICAIL 2011 Call for Papers

2010-09-06T03:13:00.000-07:00

The Call for Papers for the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2011), which will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from June 6-10, 2011, is now available. Full papers are due January 10, 2011. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Jurix 2010 Call for Papers

2010-06-28T12:11:00.000-07:00

The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2010) will take place at the University of Liverpool (U.K.), December 16 to 17, 2010. Full papers are due September 5, 2010. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation

2010-06-17T04:51:00.000-07:00

A Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation will be held in Lund, Sweden, October 22-23, 2010.

ICAIL 2011

2010-04-23T06:56:00.000-07:00

The Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2011) will take place at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, June 6-11, 2011. See the conference web site for further information.

4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2010)

2010-03-19T01:43:00.000-07:00

The 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2010) will take place October 21-23, 2010, in Washington DC, USA. There are several tracks, including one entitled "Rules and Norms". The Call for Papers was recently published. Abstracts are due May 25, 2010, full papers June 1, 2010. The symposium is co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum.

IADIS International Conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice

2010-02-03T06:02:00.000-08:00

The IADIS International Conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice will take place at the Albert Lüdwig University in Freiburg, Germany on July 26-28, 2010. According to the Call for Papers, the deadline for submissions is soon, February 19, 2010.

EGOVIS 2010 Call for Papers

2010-01-29T02:18:00.000-08:00

The International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2010) will take place August 30 to September 3, 2010, in Bilbao, Spain, in conjunction with the DEXA 2010 conference. The due date for submissions is March 7, 2010. See the DEXA website for further information, including the Call for Papers.

OVA-gen Now Available

2010-01-26T06:35:00.000-08:00

OVA-gen, a web applet for constructing and evaluating abstract argument frameworks, implemented using Adobe Flash, is now available. OVA-gen is part of the Online Visualisation of Argument (OVA) suite of argumentation tools being developed by the Argumentation Research Group at the University of Dundee.

EDem10: Extended Deadline

2010-01-20T03:02:00.001-08:00

The deadline for submitting papers to the 4th International Conference on eDemocracy (eDem10), has been extended to March 1, 2010. The conference will take place in Krems, Austria, May 6-7, 2010.

Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue

2010-01-14T01:22:00.000-08:00

The Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue, which is part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010 will take place August 16-20 (ESSLLI 2nd week) 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The deadline for submissions is April 12, 2010.

Second International Conference on eParticipation (ePart 2010)

2010-01-04T04:17:00.000-08:00

The Second International conference on eParticipation (ePart 2010), will take place August 29 - September 2, 2010, in Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference is colocated with the EGOV 2010 conference. See the conference web site for further information.

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)

2009-12-21T04:57:00.000-08:00

The Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010) will take place at the University of Leeds, UK, from June 30 to July 2, 2010. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Stephen Toulmin has Died

2009-12-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

Stephen Toulmin died Dec. 4 in Los Angeles, at the age of 87. Toulmin was perhaps most famous for his 1958 book "The Uses of Argument". The New York Times has published an obituary.

ArDys

2009-12-09T03:12:00.000-08:00

ArDys is an Open Source simulation software application for studying the dynamics of complex controversies. According the ArDys project's home page: "This argumentation-theoretic project investigates, by computer simulation, under which conditions mutual agreement is achieved due to rational argumentation: When, and why, does the exchange of arguments lead to consensus?"

Fourth International Conference on eDemocracy (eDEM10)

2009-12-08T07:26:00.000-08:00

The 4th International Conference on eDemocracy will take place at the Danube University in Krems, Austria from May 5-7, 2010. The due date for paper submissions is January 15, 2010. See the Call for Papers for further information.

3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2010)

2009-11-30T02:09:00.000-08:00

The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2010) will take place in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2010) on May 4 or 5, 2010, in Berlin, Germany. The topics of the workshop include computational models of legal reasoning and legal argumentation, among others. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Dialectical Argumentation Machines Project

2009-11-26T03:09:00.000-08:00

The Argumentation Research Group of the University of Dundee is engaged in a three year UK project entitled Dialectical Argumentation Machines. The project is pursuing three goals: 1) to develop a theoretical account of argumentation which advances the state of the art; 2) to develop a set of software components for building systems which support argumentation tasks; and 3) to apply these components to build a web application which facilitates large-scale debates.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue

2009-11-26T02:06:00.000-08:00

A Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue will take place as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2010) in the week of August 16-20, 2010, in Copenhagen.

Google Scholar now supports US Court Cases

2009-11-19T06:41:00.000-08:00

Google has announced that its Google Scholar service now enables users to "find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts". The service lists citations of the selected case, quoting the text containing the citation, along with links to these citations. Moreover, the text of opinions includes hyperlinks to cases cited in each opinion. See Google's announcement for further information.

Second International Conference on eParticipation (ePart 2010)

2009-11-19T05:32:00.000-08:00

The Second International Conference on eParticipation (ePart 2010) will take place from August 29 to September 10, 2010 at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. See the Call for Papers for further information.

COMMA 2010 Call for Papers

2009-10-05T07:23:00.000-07:00

The Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010) will take place September 8-10 in Desenano del Garda, Italy. The Call for Papers is now online.

RuleML 2009: Submission Deadline Extended

2009-06-22T15:44:00.000-07:00

The deadline for submitting papers to the RuleML 2009 conference has been extended to June 28. The notification date for decisions has been moved to July 25. The conference will take place from November 5-7, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Call for Papers: Negotiation and Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

2009-04-21T13:56:00.000-07:00

A special issue of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence on the topic of negotiation and argumentation is in preparation. See the Call for Papersfor further information. The submission deadline is July 31, 2009.

Call for Papers: GI Workshop on eVoting, eParticipation and Social Software

2009-04-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

During the German GI conference, Informatik 2009, which will take place this year at the University of Lübeck from September 28 to October 10, 2009, a workshop is planned on eVoting, eParticipation and Social Software. See the Call for Papers for fürther information.

Call for Papers: 2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy

2009-03-27T04:02:00.000-07:00

The 2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy (EDem 2009) will take place September 7-8, 2009, at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. See the Call for Papers for further information.

RuleML 2009: Call for Papers

2009-03-18T16:07:00.000-07:00

The 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009) will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event, from November 5-7, 2009. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications.

The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks, thus and will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web.

For further information, see the RuleML 2009 website.

ICAIL 2009

2009-01-05T02:02:00.000-08:00

The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009) will take place 8-12 June 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Please see the ICAIL 2009 home page and the web site of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law for further information.

Legislative XML Summer School

2008-07-17T10:03:00.000-07:00

Legislative XML Summer School - LeX 8-13 September 2008
European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence (Italy)

The LEX school aims at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, an understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative process, awareness of the tools based on legislative standards, and the ability to participate in the preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout law-making process.

For any other information visit the web site of the Legislative XML Summer School.

Carneades Argument Mapping Tool Now Available

2008-07-15T19:02:00.000-07:00

A first version of the Open Source Carneades argument mapping application is now available for downloading. Go to the Carneades home page and click on the "Downloads" item in the menu on the right.

This is work in progress, so expect bugs, even though we aren't aware of any at the moment. The look and feel is likely to change, as we continue to experiment. Please let me know if you need any help or run into any problems. Warning: using command-q or control-q to quit the program will do so without saving your work. So use the commands in the File menu instead. Argument graphs are stored using the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF) being developed in the European ESTRELLA project.

There's no manual yet. To get started, open some of the argument graphs in the examples directory and play around. Click on nodes and links in the graph and change the values of attributes in the "inspector" panel in the lower right to see what happens. Search for arguments by typing some text in the search window and then selecting items from the list.

The graphical user interface is being implemented primarily by Matthias Grabmair, in a project sponsored by Google as part of its "Summer of Code" program.

We are just getting started and have lots of ideas and plans for improvements. If any of you (of your students) might be interested in joining us in this Open Source effort, please contact me.

EDemo 2008: Call for Papers Extended to May 15

2008-03-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

The Call for Papers for the e-democracy conference to be held in Krems, Austria, September 29-30, 2008, has been extended until May 15.

Call for Papers: Electronic Democracy Conference (EDem2008)

2008-03-18T15:12:00.000-07:00

An E-Democracy conference will take place in Krems, Austria, September 29-30, 2008. The deadline for submitting papers is April 15, 2008. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings (DE

2008-03-17T10:12:00.000-07:00

The Second International Workshop on Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings (DESI II) will take place Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at University College London, in the United Kingdom. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Call for Papers: Seventh International Electronic Government Conference (EGOV 2008)

2008-02-26T11:21:00.000-08:00

The Seventh International Electronic Government Conference (EGOV 2008) will take place in Turin, Italy, from 1-5 September, 2008. See the final Call for Papers for further information.

PhD Position Available: Human-Agent Collaboration for Distributed Sensemaking and Action

2008-01-25T14:37:00.000-08:00

A 3 year PhD studentship to start as soon as possible is open at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University in the UK on the subject of Human-Agent Collaboration for Distributed Sensemaking and Action. This PhD project is a collaboration between the Hypermedia Discourse research programme at the Knowledge Media Institute and the Brahms agent-based Work Systems Simulation activity in Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center. The application deadline is Monday, 3 March 2008.

CFP: Second International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 08)

2007-06-26T14:21:00.000-07:00

The Second International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 08) will take place in Toulouse, France in May of 2008. See the Call for Papers for further information.

ICAIL Keynote Address: 20 Years of ICAIL – Reflections on the Field of AI and Law

2007-06-21T10:12:00.000-07:00

At the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (ICAIL 2007), which took place June 4-8, 2007, I had the pleasure of giving an invited talk about the history of the field, entitled "20 Years of ICAIL – Reflections on the Field of AI and Law".

Constructing Arguments with a Computational Model of an Argumentation Scheme for Legal Rules

2007-04-04T11:16:00.000-07:00

I will be presenting a short paper on using Carneades to model an argumentation scheme for legal rules at the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2007). The full title is "Constructing Arguments with a Computational Model of an Argumentation Scheme for Legal Rules". Here is the abstract:

"A knowledge representation language for defeasible legal rules is defined, whose semantics is purely procedural, based on Walton's theory of argumentation and Loui's break with the relational tradition in 'Process and Policy'. Legal rules are interpreted as reasoning policies, by mapping them in the semantics to argumentation schemes. The reasoning process is regulated by argumentation protocols. Reasoning with legal rules is viewed as applying schemes for arguments from rules to construct arguments to be put forward in dialogues."

The Carneades Model of Argument and Burden of Proof

2007-03-30T14:38:00.000-07:00

Henry Prakken, Doug Walton and I have written an article entitled "The Carneades Model of Argument and Burden of Proof" to be published by Elsevier in the Artificial Intelligence journal. Here is the abstract:

"We present a formal, mathematical model of argument structure and evaluation, taking seriously the procedural and dialogical aspects of argumentation. The model applies proof standards to determine the acceptability of statements on an issue-by-issue basis. The model uses different types of premises (ordinary premises, assumptions and exceptions) and information about the dialectical status of statements (stated, questioned, accepted or rejected) to allow the burden of proof to be allocated to the proponent or the respondent, as appropriate, for each premise separately. Our approach allows the burden of proof for a premise to be assigned to a different party than the one who has the burden of proving the conclusion of the argument, and also to change the burden of proof or applicable proof standard as the dialogue progresses from stage to stage. Useful for modeling legal dialogues, the burden of production and burden of persuasion can be handled separately, with a different responsible party and applicable proof standard for each. Carneades enables critical questions of argumentation schemes to be modeled as additional premises, using premise types to capture the varying effect on the burden of proof of different kinds of questions."

Call for Papers: dg.o 2007 Workshop on Analysing eParticipation Contributions

2007-03-26T15:34:00.000-07:00

An eParticipation workshop, focusing on tools and techniques for analyzing citizen contributions, will take place May 20, 2007, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the 8th Annual Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2007). Please see the workshop's Call for Papers for further information.

GlobalArgument.net

2007-03-09T13:15:00.000-08:00

GlobalArgument.net conducts experiments to evaluate the potential of argumentation technology. People interested in argumentation technology, critical thinking, debate and related topics are invited to participate in the experiment. The current experiment addresses the question: How can computational tools assist in understanding, communicating, searching and tracking the debate about the recently published Iraq Study Group Report.

2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web

2007-02-14T09:33:00.000-08:00

The 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 22 to 23 October, 2007. The conference is a "unique forum to envision and debate how the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web mediates the ways in which we construct shared meaning. While there is much research and development into topics relevant to this challenge such as collaboration, usability, knowledge representation, and social informatics, the Pragmatic Web conference provides common ground for dialogue at the nexus of these topics."

Call for Papers: Sixth International EGOV Conference

2007-02-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

The Sixth International EGOV Conference (EGOV 2007) will take place in Regensburg, Germany, from 3-7 September, 2007. See the Call for Papers for further information.

International Rechtsinformatik Symposium, Salzburg (IRIS 2007)

2007-02-05T10:14:00.000-08:00

The 10th International Rechtsinformatik Symposium (IRIS 2007) will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from 22-24 February 2007.

JURIX 2006 Conference Program Available

2006-11-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

The final program of the JURIX 2006 Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, which will take place December 7-9, 2006 in Paris, is now available.

Conference Program Available: Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings

2006-11-01T12:53:00.000-08:00

A nice brochure with the program of the conference on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings is now available. The conference will take place January 28-29, 2007 at the Cardozo Law School in New York City.

Call for Papers: ICAIL 07

2006-07-13T12:54:00.000-07:00

The Call for Papers for the next International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-07) is now available. The due date for submissions is January 14, 2007. The conference will take place June 4-8, 2007, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Special Issue on Argumentation Technology of the IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal

2006-06-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

A Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Argumentation Technology of the IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal has just been published. The due date for submissions is 2 March 2007.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Socio-Technical Infrastructures to Foster Democractic Processes

2006-06-12T23:52:00.000-07:00

A workshop on "Socio-technical Infrastructures to Foster Democratic Processes" will take place during the annual conference of the German Society for Informatics, which will take place this coming October in Dresden, Germany. See the Call for Papers for further information.

Call for Papers; JURIX 2006

2006-06-12T23:28:00.000-07:00

The 19th International Conference on Legal Knowledge Systems (JURIX 2006) will

take place from 7-9 December, 2006, in Paris, France. See the Call for Papers

for further information. The submission deadline is 21 August 2006.

Call for Participation: Eighth International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON 2006)

2006-04-12T17:09:00.000-07:00

The biennial DEON workshops are designed to promote cooperation among scholars across disciplines who are interested in deontic logic and its use in computer science. These workshops traditionally support research linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts and normative systems with computer science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, organisation theory and law. DEON 2006 will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 12-14 July. See the conference web site for further information.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence Journal on Argumentation

2006-04-06T23:41:00.000-07:00

A Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Argumentation of the Artificial Intelligence Journal has been announced. The special issue is being edited by Paul Dunne and Trevor Bench-Capon of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool. The submission deadline is 31 October 2006.

Conference on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings

2006-03-31T11:44:00.000-08:00

Prof. Peter Tillers of the Cardozo Law School in New York City will be hosting a conference on

"Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings". The conference will take place January 28-29, 2007.