Call for Papers
ICAIL 2007
June 4 – June 8, 2007
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA USA
http://www.iaail.org
Sponsored by:
- The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
- Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School
- Thomson Legal & Regulatory
The field of AI and Law is concerned with:
- the study of legal reasoning and argumentation, using computational methods
- the formal representation of norms, normative actions, normative systems and norm-governed societies and multi-agent systems
- the investigation of techniques from advanced information technology, using law as the illustrative domain
- applications of advanced information technology to support tasks in the legal domain.
ICAIL 2007 will be held under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and Law with members throughout the world. ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL conferences have been held biennially since 1987, with proceedings published by ACM.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to:
- Legal knowledge-based systems
- Advanced judicial support systems
- Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
- Case-based legal reasoning
- Computational models of legal reasoning and argumentation
- Representation of legal and related commonsense knowledge
- Representation of other norm-governed systems (e.g. business rules, organization rules, security regulations, and rules of order)
- Applications of machine learning to law
- Automated extraction of information from legal texts
- Intelligent legal tutoring systems
- Advanced legal document drafting systems
- Evidential reasoning with uncertainty
- Legal applications of knowledge-based electronic commerce
- Advanced internet legal research aids
- Knowledge discovery in legal databases
- Legal XML for integration with information retrieval, document drafting and knowledge-based systems
- Advanced tools for legal knowledge management
- Online dispute resolution
- Modelling norms for multi-agent interaction or electronic institutions
- Modelling contracts and other speech acts for electronic agents
- Semantic Web applications in the legal field
- Legal ontologies
Papers on theoretical issues in AI and in jurisprudence or legal philosophy are invited, provided that the relevance to AI and Law is clearly demonstrated.
Papers on applications are welcome; they should describe clearly the motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the current state of implementation together with an evaluation of any implementation. Related demonstrations are also welcome.
MENTORING PROGRAM FOR ICAIL 2007
The International Association of AI and Law will offer a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ICAIL conference. The program is intended primarily for younger authors who have not published at ICAIL previously. For more details see ICAIL07-MentoringProgram
DONALD H. BERMAN AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or students. Notification will be made through the ICAIL web site, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted, and any nonstudent coauthors should provide a statement that the paper is primarily student work.
ICAIL WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
ICAIL 2007 will include tutorials and workshops on the first and last days. Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited, and should be sent to the Program Chair. Proposals should contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals should be about 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information:
- The workshop or tutorial topic and goals, their significance, and their appropriateness for ICAIL 2007
- The intended audience, including the areas from which participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop
- Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions) and the expected length (full day or half day)
- Organizers' details: a description of the main organizer's background in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including web pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable).
- Mentoring program notice: November 6, 2006
- Mentoring Program deadline: November 13, 2006
- Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 17, 2006
- Submission (optional) of abstracts: December 17, 2006
- Submission of papers: January 21, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2007
- Registration period begins: March 12, 2007
- Camera-ready copies: April 18, 2007
- Conference: June 4-8, 2007
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers should not exceed 5000 words. Short papers of up to 2500 words are also invited. If an approved style file is used, the length limits are 10 pages and 5 pages respectively. Information about style files will be available at the web site, http://www.iaail.org.
Papers should be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates and submitted electronically using the ICAIL 2007 Conference Management System, by January 14, in PDF or PostScript format. To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by December 17, 2006, to the conference system. Abstracts should include at least the title of the paper, up to four keywords, and a contact address for the author.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
Program Chair
Radboud Winkels
Leibniz Center for Law
University of Amsterdam
PO Box 1030
1000 BA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Email: winkels@uva.nl.
Tel: +31-20-525-3485
Conference Chair
Anne Gardner
286 Selby Lane, Atherton, California 94027, USA
Email: gardner@cs.stanford.edu.
Tel: +1-650-368-1297
Secretary/Treasurer
Carole Hafner
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Email: hafner@ccs.neu.edu
Tel: +1-617-373-5116
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Radboud Winkels (chair), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
- Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
- Danielle Bourcier, CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
- Karl L. Branting, BAE Systems, Columbia, Maryland, USA
- Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Enrique Cáceres, Nieto Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Mexico City, Mexico
- Pompeu Casanovas, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anne Gardner, Atherton, California, USA
- Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
- Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
- Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
- Peter Jackson, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Andrew J.I. Jones, King's College London, UK
- Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, USA
- Arno Lodder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Ronald Loui, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
- Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA
- Marie-Francine Moens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
- Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
- Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
- Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Marek J. Sergot, Imperial College, UK
- Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia