Second Call for Papers


Eighth International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW
(ICAIL-2001)


May 21-25, 2001
St. Louis, Missouri, USA


http://www.cs.wustl.edu/icail2001/



The field of AI and law is concerned with:

  • the investigation of legal reasoning and argumentation using computational methods
  • applications of AI and advanced information technology to support tasks in regulated domains, especially for legal practice and education.
  • the investigation of techniques from AI and advanced information technology using law as the example domain

    ICAIL-2001 will be held under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and Law with members throughout the world. ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL conferences have taken place in Boston (1987), Vancouver (1989), Oxford (1991), Amsterdam (1993), College Park, Maryland (1995), Melbourne (1997), and Oslo (1999). As with these past conferences, the accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings.

    Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to:

  • Legal Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Advanced Judicial Support Systems
  • Conceptual or Model-Based Legal Information Retrieval
  • Case-Based Legal Reasoning
  • Computational Models of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
  • Representation of Legal and Common Sense Knowledge
  • Representation of other Norm-Governed Systems (e.g. business rules, organisation rules, security regulations, and rules of order)
  • Applications of Machine Learning to Law
  • Automated Extraction of Information from Legal Texts
  • Intelligent Legal Tutoring Systems
  • Advanced Legal Document Drafting Systems
  • Legal Ontologies
  • Reasoning with Uncertainty in Evidential Reasoning

    Special encouragement is given to submissions concerning new topics such as:

  • Legal Applications of Knowledge-based Electronic Commerce
  • Advanced Internet Legal Research Aids
  • Knowledge Discovery in Legal Databases
  • Legal XML for Integration with Information Retrieval, Document Drafting and Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Advanced Tools for Legal Knowledge Management
  • Models of Multi-Agent Systems with Legal Agents
  • Modelling of Norms for Multi-Agent Interaction or Electronic Institutions

    Papers on theoretical issues in AI and in jurisprudence or legal philosophy are invited provided that the relevance to AI and Law is clearly demonstrated. Papers on applications should include a description of the nature and purpose of the application, the techniques employed, and the current state of implementation.

    DONALD H. BERMAN AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER

    To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student. The winner(s) of the award, which is presented at the conference banquet, receive a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL-2001.

    ICAIL WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

    ICAIL-2001 will include a tutorial and workshop program. Proposals for tutorials and workshops are also invited, and should be sent to the Program Chair by December 1st, 2000.

    Currently planned workshops:

  • Advanced IT in Law Practice
  • AI and Legal Evidence
  • Regulated Electronic Societies

    Currently planned tutorials:

  • Introduction to AI & Law
  • Finding Law on the Internet

    INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Kevin D. Ashley, School of Law / Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
  • Frederick Schauer, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, USA

    IMPORTANT DATES

  • Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 1, 2000.
  • Submission of paper: January 12, 2001.
  • Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2001.
  • Camera-ready copies due: April 13, 2001.
  • Conference: May 21-25, 2001.

    SUBMISSION DETAILS

    Paper submissions must be received by the Program Chair by January 12, 2001. Style files for Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers should not exceed 5000 words or, if one of the style files is used, 10 pages. Short papers not exceeding 2500 words (or five pages if a style file is used) are also invited, particularly in the area of "applications experience".

    Electronic paper submissions are strongly preferred and should be sent to the Program Chair as an email attachment, using PDF or PostScript format. To submit by ordinary mail, send six (6) hard copies of the complete paper to the Program Chair at the address below.

    Guidelines for authors, including downloadable style files and templates, are available at the conference WEB site.

    Program Chair

    Henry Prakken
    Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
    Utrecht University
    PO Box 80089
    3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
    email: henry@cs.uu.nl
    phone: (+31 30) 2532313
    fax: (+31 30) 2513791

    Conference Chair

    Ronald P. Loui
    Department of Computer Science
    Washington University-in-Saint-Louis
    email: loui@ai.wustl.edu
    phone: 314-935-6102
    fax: 314-935-7302

    Secretary/Treasurer:

    Carole D. Hafner
    College of Computer Science
    Northeastern University
    Boston, MA 02115 USA
    email: hafner@ccs.neu.edu
    phone: 617-373-5116
    fax: 617-373-5121

    Program Committee:

    Henry Prakken (chair) Utrecht University, The Netherlands
    Vincent Aleven Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    Kevin D. Ashley University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon University of Liverpool, UK
    L. Karl Branting University of Wyoming, USA
    Rosaria Conte CNR Rome, Italy
    Anne Gardner Stanford, USA
    Thomas F. Gordon GMD Bonn, Germany
    Benjamin Grosof Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    Carole D. Hafner Northeastern University, USA
    Jaap Hage Maastricht University, The Netherlands
    Peter Jackson West Group, USA
    Andrew J.I. Jones University of Oslo, Norway
    Steven Kimbrough University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Ron Loui Washington University, USA
    L. Thorne McCarty Rutgers University, USA
    Anja Oskamp Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Edwina Rissland University of Massachusetts, USA
    Giovanni Sartor Queen's Un. Belfast, UK / Un. of Bologna, Italy
    Marek J. Sergot Imperial College London, UK
    Andrew Stranieri La Trobe University, Australia
    John Zeleznikow La Trobe University, Australia