JURISIN 2015 - Call for Papers

Ninth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2015)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2015
associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2015 (IsAI-2015)
https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/

Date: November 16 - 18, 2015
Place: Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan
http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html

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 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unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on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.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: September 4, 2015 (extended)
Notification October 8, 2015 (revised)
Camera-ready due October 15, 2015
Workshop: November 16 - 18, 2015

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
* Information retrieval of legal texts
* 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
* Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with
juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

Bar Exam Competition
JURISIN invites participation in a legal information extraction and entailment
competition. The aim for the competition is to help create a research
community of practice for the capture and use of legal information. Please
visit the homepage of the bar exam competition:
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/COLIEE2015/

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 2015 (The 28th International Conference on Legal Knowledge
and Information Systems) http://jurix2015.di.uminho.pt/. The double
submission policy with JURIX 2015 is as follows:

1. Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2015 and JURIX2015 must note this on the title page.
2. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2015 must be withdrawn from JURIX2015 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.
3. If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2015.

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.

Please submit a paper at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2015.

Workshop Chairs
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan

Steering Committee Members
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, 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, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

Advisory Committee Members
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Thomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Program Committee Members
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Masahiro Kozuka, Okayama University, Japan
Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China
Minghui Ma, Southwest University, China
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Hirotoshi Taira, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Minghui Xiong, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Baosheng Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law, China

Previous JURISIN workshops
* JURISIN2007
* JURISIN2008
* JURISIN2009
* JURISIN2010
* JURISIN2011
* JURISIN2012
* JURISIN2013
* JURISIN2014

For any inquiry concerning the workshop, please send it to "ksatoh[at]nii.ac.jp"