Keio University (Raiosha), Yokohama, Japan with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in association with Fifth JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2013)

New Information

• We will hold a dinner party after the final session on 27 th and start from 6 pm.

  Directions to the party place are shown HERE.
  

• Notifications have been sent to the authors. (September 15-16, 2013)
• The deadline of paper submission is extended. (August 7, 2013)
• The double submission policy with JURIX2013 is noted below. (July 1, 2013)
• The workshop website is open. (April 26, 2013)

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: August 24, 2013 (Extended!)
Notification: September 15, 2013
Camera Ready Copy due: September 30, 2013
Workshop: October 27 - 28, 2013

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We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.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

• 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

Invited Speakers

　　　　　　　
1. Martin Caminada (University of Aberdeen, UK)
   Title: A Brief Overview of Formal Argumentation Theory
   　　　　　　　
2. Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool, UK)
   Title: Modal Patterns in Abstract Argumentation
   
3. Kotaro Takagi (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
   Title: Legal Communication without Shared Knowledge or Framework: An Approach from Forensic Psychology
   　　　　　　　

Special Speaker

　　　　　　　
1. Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
   Title: Conservative Social Laws
   

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 2013 (The 26th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2013 is as follows:

1. Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2013 and JURIX2013 must note this on the title page.
2. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2013 must be withdrawn from JURIX2013 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 2013.

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.
For a paper submission, click here (If you cannot submit a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please send email to nitta@dis.titech.ac.jp) .

Registration