Call for Papers: Fifteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2021)

November 13 - 15, 2021
https://www.kl.itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jurisin2021/

Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan (or online)

with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in
association with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2021 (JSAI-isAI-2021)

**** Submission Deadline: August 31, 2021 ****

Aims and scope

Juris-informatics is a new research area that studies legal issues
from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is
to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people
from 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 We solicit unpublished papers on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 legal education
  • Use of Informatics and AI in law
  • Legal issues on applications of robotics and AI to society
  • Social implications of the use of informatics and AI in law
  • AI and intellectual property
  • Natural language processing for legal knowledge
  • Legal data mining
  • Legal document analysis
  • Legal information retrieval
  • Legal information extraction
  • Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
  • Online dispute resolution
  • Evidential reasoning
  • Application of Bayesian Network to law
  • 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 to juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

Submissions

Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from https://www.springer.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 through an online registration before submitting a camera-read copy, and present the paper on site if an on-site workshop is held, or present the paper on line if any authors cannot attend the session on site or if on-line workshop is held. We strongly encourage an online registration.

You can submit your paper at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2021
If you cannot submit a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please send email to:
yasuhiro [at] is dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp

Invited Speakers

TBA

Post Proceedings

Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag LNAI series 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), LNAI10091(JURISIN2015),
LNAI10247(JURISIN2016), LNAI10838(JURISIN2017), LNAI11717(JURISIN2018), LNAI12331 (JURISIN2019), and LNAI12758 (JURISIN2020).

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2021
Notification: September 2021
Camera-ready due: October 2021
JURISIN 2021: November 13 - 15, 2021

Workshop Chair

Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Steering Committee Members

Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University
Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Chiba University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya University, 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
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan

Advisory Committee Members

Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Programme Committee Members (Tentative)

Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Ryuta Arisaka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Kripabandhu Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Chiba University, Japan
Tomoumi Nishimura, Osaka University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, NII, Japan
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, Italy
Ginevra Peruginelli, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, NII, Japan
Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan

Home page of JURISIN 2021
https://www.kl.itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jurisin2021/

For any inquiry, please send it to yasuhiro[at] is dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp

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