JURISIN 2018 - 12th International Workshop on Juris-informatics

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 We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and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.
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 applications of robotics and AI to society
• Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
• Natural language processing for legal knowledge
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
• Normative Systems/Deontic Logic
• Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

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 2018 (The 31th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems).

The double submission policy with JURIX 2018 is as follows:
1. Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2018 and JURIX2018 must note this on the title page.
2. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2018 must be withdrawn from JURIX2018 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.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 2018.

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.

You can submit your paper at "https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2018".
If you cannot submit a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please send email to: nitta "at" dis.titech.ac.jp

Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag LNAI series after the second round of review after the workshop.

Invited Speakers
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: August 30, 2018(tentative)( AOE )
Notification: September 30, 2018(tentative)
Camera-ready due: October 10, 2018(tentative) ( AOE )

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, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

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

Program Committee Members
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK
Ryuta Arisaka, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Kristijonas Cyras, Imperial College London, UK
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
Tatsuhiko Inatani, Kyoto University, Japan
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Tetsuro Kawamoto, AIST, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan
Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, Chaina
Brian Logan, The University of Nottingham, UK
Hatsuru Morita, Tohoku University, Japan
Yoichi Motomura, AIST, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Nihon University, Japan
Konatsu Nishigai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Titech, Japan
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
Fumio Shimpo, Keio University, Japan
Kazuko Takahashi, Kansei Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Rob van den Hoven van Genderen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan

COLIEE 2018
This year, JURISIN will co-located with the Fifth Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE-2018).
The motivation 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 COLIEE2018 https://sites.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/COLIEE2018/ to see the detail of the competition.

For further information, please contact
Katsumi Nitta,
Workshop Chair, Tokyo Institute of Technology
nitta "at" dis.titech.ac.jp