Final CFP: JURISIN2019 (Deadline extended to 6 September, 2019)

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Final Call for Papers:

Thirteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2019)

November 10 - 12, 2019

https://www.niit.ac.jp/jurisin2019/

Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan

with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in

association with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2019 (JSAI-isAI 2019)

**** Submission Deadline: September 6, 2019 (Extended!) ****

**** 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unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on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:

* Model of legal reasoning

* Argumentation / Negotiation / 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

* Natural language processing for legal knowledge

* Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems

* Online dispute resolution

* AI and intellectual property

* Computer aided legal education

* Legal data mining

* Legal document analysis

* Legal information retrieval

* Legal information extraction

* Evidential reasoning

* AI application to forensics

* AI application to smart contracts and blockchain

* Legislation support by AI/IT techniques

* Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with

  juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

**** 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 2019 (The 32nd International 

Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double 

submission policy with JURIX 2019 is as follows:

- Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2019 and JURIX2019 must note 

  this on the title page.

- A paper to be presented at JURISIN2019 must be withdrawn from 

  JURIX2019 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 JURISIN2019. 

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 14 pages including figures, 

references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of 

the format, 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. We strongly encourage an online 

registration.

You can submit your paper at 

"https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2019".

If you cannot submit a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please 

send email to:

mnakamur [at] niit dot ac dot jp

**** Invited Speakers ****

Speaker 1: Floris Bex (Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Title: TBA

Speaker 2: TBA

Title: TBA

**** Post Proceedings****

Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer 

Verlag LNAI after the second round of review after the workshop. 

The selected papers of the previous workshops were published as volumes 

of LNAI4914(JURISIN 2007), LNAI5447(JURISIN 2008), LNAI6284(JURISIN 2009), 

LNAI6797(JURISIN2010), LNAI7258(JURISIN2011), LNAI7856(JURISIN2012), 

LNAI8417(JURISIN2013), LNAI9067(JURISIN2014), and LNAI10091 (JURISIN2015),

LNAI10247(JURISIN2016), LNAI10838(JURISIN2017), and TBA(JURISIN2018).

**** Important Dates ****

Submission Deadline: September 6, 2019 (Extended!)

Notification: October 4, 2019 (Extended!)

Camera Ready Copy due: October 17, 2019

JURISIN 2019: November 10-12, 2019

**** Workshop Chair ****

Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Satoshi Tojo, JAIST

**** Steering Committee Members ****

Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University

Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan

Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan

Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

**** Programme Committee Members (Tentative) ****

Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway

Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Ryuta Arisaka, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK

Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada

Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia

Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan

Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan

Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University, Japan

Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada

Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Le-Minh Nguyen, JAIST, Japan

Katumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Ginevra Peruginelli, ITTIG-CNR, Italy

Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan

Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan

Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan

Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan

**** Home page of JURISIN 2019 ****

https://www.niit.ac.jp/jurisin2019/

For any inquiry, please send it to mnakamur [at] niit dot ac dot jp.