[agents] [2nd Call for Papers] Jurix 2016 - Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

[Floris Bex]

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JURIX 2016 - 29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and
Information Systems: Call for Papers & Proposals
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For almost 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international
forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence and
Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation
<http://www.jurix.nl/> for Legal Knowledge Systems.

JURIX 2016 <http://jurix2016.unice.fr/> will be held at the University of
Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) on 14, 15 and 16 December 2016.

We invite submissions of papers (long and short), technology demonstrations
and proposals for workshops & tutorials.

As the conference approaches, more information will be published on
the conference
website <http://jurix2016.unice.fr/>.

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Paper submission
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The deadline for paper submission is **Sunday, September 4, 2016**

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press in their series
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA).
* Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management
System <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2016> in PDF format.
* Papers should not exceed 10 pages and be formatted using the styles and
guidelines in the IOS Press Instructions for Authors
<http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/>
.

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Topics
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We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal
information and knowledge systems, covering foundations, methods, tools,
systems and applications. We welcome submissions on a wide variety of
topics including, but not limited to, the following:

==I : Theory and foundations==
Contributions to the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use
of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal and forensic domain.
* Models, formalisms and algorithms for representing and reasoning with
legal knowledge (rules, cases, arguments, procedures);
* Models, formalisms and algorithms for representing and reasoning about
legal interactions (digital institutions, normative systems).

==II : Technology==
Contributions to the technological advancement of Artificial Intelligence
and Information Systems in the legal and forensic domain.
* Technologies for expressing the structure and semantics of legal texts
and data;
* Technologies for natural language processing and information retrieval
with respect to legal texts;
* Technologies for analysis, verification and validation of legal knowledge
systems;
* Technologies for digital-rights management, access policies and
authorisation;
* Technologies for social simulations in the legal domain;
* Support and methodologies for the acquisition, management or use of legal
knowledge in information systems.

==III : Applications==
Implementations of AI & Law technology in real world systems.
* Support legislators in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting,
publishing and implementation;
* Support for the judiciary, lawyers, law enforcement and public
administration legal reasoning, analysis of evidence, management of cases,
document drafting;
* Support for business in managing regulatory compliance and compliance of
business processes;
* Support for private parties in using online dispute resolution;
* Support for education by using legal information systems in a teaching
environment.

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Organization
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Program Chair - Floris Bex (Utrecht University) f.j.bex at uu.nl
Local Chair - Serena Villata (CNRS) villata at i3s.unice.fr
Doctoral Consortium Chair - Monica Palmirani (University of Bologna)
monica.palmirani at unibo.it

==Program Committee==

Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool
Floris Bex, Utrecht University
Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam
Elena Cabrio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters
Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS & University of Potsdam
Guido Governatori, NICTA
Matthias Grabmair, Carnegie Mellon University
Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool
Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam/VU University Amsterdam
Paulo Novais, University of Minho
Marc van Opijnen, KOOP
Gordon Pace, University of Malta
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna
Radim Polčák, Masaryk University
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University & University of Groningen
Livio Robaldo, University of Luxemburg
Anna Ronkainen, TrademarkNow
Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute Florence & University of
Bologna
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai
Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh
Fernando Schapachnik, Departamento de Computación, University of Buenos
Aires
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna
Sarah Sutherland, Canadian Legal Information Institute
Leon Van Der Torre, University of Luxembourg
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen
Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam
Adam Wyner, University of Aberdeen
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University
Tomasz Żurek, Marie-Curie University of Lublin