AICOL 2011
HTTP://WWW.AICOL.EU/
EXTENDED DEADLINE at June 15th and FULL DAY WORKSHOP
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Full day Workshop of the
XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social
Philosophy FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 15-16 AUGUST 2011

Call for papers

EXTENSION DEADLINE
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Following many requests for an extension of the AICOL
deadline, the Program committee has decided that 15th
June 2011, will be the latest date on which full
papers can be submitted: Note that this deadline
cannot be further extended, since the PC needs to
have the time for a good review process.

OBJECTIVES
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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
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* 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
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Paper submission: May 16th, 2011 ---) NEW DEADLINE: June 15th
Peer Review Communications: July 11th, 2011
Camera Ready: July 31th, 2011
AICOL Workshop: August 16th, 2011
Publication: November/December 2011 (LNAI volume)
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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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 at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicol2011

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
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
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.
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PUBLICATIONS
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The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer –
LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
The publication will be released in December, following the Springer process.

PROGRAM CHAIRS
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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)
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