ICAIL-2009 Workshop and Tutorial Program

Regular and student registration for ICAIL-2009 includes attendance at workshops and/or tutorials.  Participants will be asked when they register to specify which workshops and/or tutorials they will attend, to help the local organizers reserve sufficient space.  Single-day registration for a reduced fee is available for those who want to attend a single day of workshop/tutorial activities or a single day of the conference.  

Schedule of workshops and tutorials 

 Workshop Descriptions and Calls for Participation 

DESI III: Global E-Discovery/E-Disclosure

Call for Participation: http://www.law.pitt.edu/DESI3_Workshop/ 

Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration

Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters Research & Development

Marc Light, Thomson Reuters Research & Development

Debra Logan, Gartner Inc. (UK) 

LOAIT : Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Call for Participation:  http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait09.html

Legal knowledge modelling addresses key issues related to the treatment of legal reasoning: ontologies usually play the role of a shared vocabulary or of a (formal) conceptualization of specific legal subject matters, possible in terms of common sense notions as already formalized in existing foundational ontologies. The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. The workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives. 

Organizers

Enrico Francesconi , CNR, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR) Florence; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Simonetta Montemagni , CNR, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Computational Linguistics (ILC-CNR), PISA, Italy; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nuria Casellas, Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB Institute of Law and Technology (IDT), Barcelona, Spain;   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands 

Modelling Legal Cases

Call for Participation:  http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~katie/LegalCasesWorkshop09-CFP

Research in AI and Law has, throughout its history, produced a variety of approachesby which legal cases can be modelled. These approaches support different styles ofreasoning for a variety of problem-solving contexts, such as decision-making,information retrieval, teaching, etc.the goals of the workshop are to establish the current state of the art regarding the different approaches that have been developed for modelling legal cases,with a view to progressing work in this area. There are many different approaches,each with different merits, and a forum in which these can be discussed should beuseful for authors to identify and address the challenges that remain in caserepresentation and reasoning. 

Organizer

Katie Atkinson, at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Privacy and protection in web-based social networks

Call for Participation:  http://dmag.ac.upc.edu/conferences/icail2009/

The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts on Security, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Semantic Web, Social Networks and related Legal Aspects to discuss how user’s privacy is currently protected in Online Social Networks and Collaborative Networks and how current Semantic Web and Digital Rights Management (DRM) techniques could help to this purpose. The impact of legal regulations should not be forgotten.  To this end, this workshop would explore recent advances in all areas of DRM, security, trust and privacy in Social Networks and workshop participants would discuss how DRM and Semantic Web techniques could be applied to govern users’ data, providing in this way protection from attacks to user’s privacy in Social Networks.

Organizers

Jaime Delgado (UPC, Spain), Chair;  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Eva Rodríguez (UPC, Spain);  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Call for Participation: http://nalea.org/nalela/nalela09.html

The topic of this workshop is the language, logic, and computation of legal argumentation:  linguistic analyses of legal argumentation show the lexical items, syntactic patterns, and discourse structures; logics of argumentation represent the argument abstractly and enable one to infer justified claims; computational models support implementations of the logic allowing for automated inference.  The workshop not only promotes research towards understanding legal argumentation, but more importantly promotes the development of interactive prototype systems; such a system allows automated parsing and semantic translation of arguments; comparison of statements input in natural language relative to an existing complex argument; calculation of relationships between statements; inference to justified conclusions in large networks of arguments; and generation of natural language output or argument graphs. 

Organizers

Dr. Adam Wyner, University College London; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Prof. Tom van Engers,  University of Amsterdam

The workshop follows previous workshops on Judicial Decision Support Systems in Melbourne (1997), Oslo (1999) and St. Louis (2001) and Online Dispute Resolution in Edinburgh (2003), Bologna (2005) and Palo Alto (2007). The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic dealing with Decision Support in the domains of law and negotiation.  Papers dealing with practical innovations will be highly valued.

Organizers

Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel:   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia;   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Tutorial Descriptions 

Enhancing Dispute Resolution through the use of Information Technology

Arno Lodder, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands;   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The objectives of this tutorial are:

a.  To examine how to cope with the rapidly escalating number of disputes: both offline and on the internet.

b.   To introduce dispute resolution fundamentals.

c.   To indicate how information technology can provide intelligent decision support for resolving disputes.

Topics include: norms for the use of IT in dispute resolution; developing IT dispute resolution processes; standard technologies for dispute resolution; examples of intelligent negotiation decision suppor; the Lodder and Zeleznikow Model for Online Dispute Resolution.

Business Process Compliance
Guido Governatori, Marta Indulska and Shazia Sadiq; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

In order to develop a successful framework for compliance of business processes, the right combinations of process modelling language and business rule modeling languages must be used. Accordingly, the second part of tutorial focuses on the analysis of the current state of the art in business rule modeling and identifies strengths and limitations of the current standards and languages. The third and final part of the workshop presents frameworks that overcome some of the major limitations of the approaches discussed in the second part and concentrates on a system for (formal) modelling and monitoring compliance.