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June 5-6, 2023 (Hybrid Format)
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 We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.
Please register the workshop at registration page of JSAI International Symposia on AI 2023.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Title: Awareness and Reliability in Legal Reasoning -- from the viewpoint of modal logic --
Abstract:
Modality appears in various forms in legal reasoning; one conspicuous example is knowledge/ belief of agents, e.g., that of plaintiff and defendant, and another well-known one is what concerns deonticity. In this lecture, we introduce our efforts to develop such modal logics as epistemic/ doxastic/ deontic logic, to include such issues as awareness and reliability. The awareness concerns how the defendant is conscious of the fact mentioned in court, and the reliability discusses how the information witnessed by each agent is persuasive to other agents. Thus far, these issues have mainly been formalized with multiple (different kinds of) accessibility among possible worlds, however, we show we could formalize them with the notion of distance among possible worlds, regarding neighborhood semantics and topology.
Title: Rules, Computation and Politics: Scrutinizing Unnoticed Programming Choices in French Housing Benefits
Abstract: Social benefits and taxes are computed by machines in almost all developed countries. The size and complexity of the programs implementing these computations is big enough that serious questions can be raised about their safety, correctness and faithfulness to the law. In this presentation, we will share our experience translating the rules for the French housing benefits computation into executable code with the Catala domain-specific language. This formalization effort cast light on several ambiguities and non-neutral choices that had to be made in order to produce the code. Overall, we call for more transparency and accountability of the administration regarding the software they operate whose task is to massively apply the law.
Link to supporting research:
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03712130
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines 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 at registration page before submitting a camera-read copy, and present the paper on site if an on-site workshop is held, or present the paper on line if any authors cannot attend the session on site or if on-line workshop is held. Without fulfilling this condition, the paper will not be in the proceedings.
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University
Takehiko Kasahara, Toin University of Yokohama
Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshiaki Nishigai, Chiba University, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University, 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
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Kripabandhu Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India
Saptarshi Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, Independent researcher, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Nguyen Le Minh, Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, National Institute of Advanced Indutrial Science and Technology, Japan
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University, Japan
Juliano Rabelo, University of Alberta, Canada
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan,
Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Asia University, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
For any inquiry concerning the workshop, please send it to "ksatoh[at]nii.ac.jp"
JURISIN 2023 home page http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2023