Fourth International Workshop on Juris-informatics(JURISIN 2010)

Nov. 18-19, 2010

Campus Innovation Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

in association with Second JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2010)

The workshop is partially supported by JAIST 20th anniversary foundation and NII research fund.

New Information (as of November 25, 2010)

Added 10/11/10 Workshop photos can be seen hear and there. (25/11/10)>

Added 10/11/10 For a workshop registration, please refer to a registration page (10/11/10)

Added 29/10/10 A workshop programme has been set (29/10/10)

Added 08/09/10 Due to the many requests, the deadline of JURISIN 2010 has been extended to September 20, 2010!! (08/09/10)

Added 10/08/10 A link to submission page has been set. (10/08/10)

Added 10/08/10 Springer Verlag has agreed to publish selected papers of the workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2010 post-proceedings as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series!!(10/08/10)

Added 10/08/10


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 for juris-informatics 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We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.


Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Legal reasoning
* Argumentation/Argumentation agent
* Legal term ontology
* Formal legal knowledge-base/Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
* Translation of legal documents
* 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


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 2010 (The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2010 is as follows:
1. Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2010 and JURIX2010 must note this on the title page.
2. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2010 must be withdrawn from JURIX2010 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.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 2010.

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 12 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 to the designated page which will be announced later.
If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop and present it.
For a paper submission, click here .


Proceedings

A printed volume of the proceedings with ISBN will be available at the workshop.


Post Proceedings

Springer Verlag has agreed to publish selected papers of the workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2010 post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI. Thus, the authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings, after another round of refereeing.

Note that the selected papers of the first, the second and the third workshops have been published/will be published as volumes of LNAI4914, LNAI5447 and LNAI6284 respectively.


Financial Support for Students

We have received some budget from JSAI for partial economical support for travelling costs for promising foreign students whose papers have been accepted to be presented at JURISIN2010. The amount of the whole support is 200,000 yen and we divide it to students who need a support. The actual support will vary based on the number of applicants and where students come from.


Important Dates

Submission Deadline: September 20, 2010 (Extended)
Notification: October 19, 2010 (Extended)
Camera Ready Copy due: October 26, 2010 (Extended)
JURISIN 2010: November 18-19, 2010


Workshop Chair

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan


Organizing Committee Members

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan


Programme Committee Members

Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Luong Chi Mai, IOIT, Vietnam
Makoto Nakamura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shozo Ota, University of Tokyo, Japan
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Hajime Sawamura, Niigata University, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Nuanwan Soonthornphisaj, Ksetsart University, Thailand
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia


Home page of JURISIN 2010: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2010.html


preivous JURISIN workshops

JURISIN2007
JURISIN2008
JURISIN2009

For any inquiry, please send it to "jurisin2010 at nii.ac.jp".