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CALL FOR PAPERS
Ninth International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW
ICAIL 2003
http://www.cfslr.ed.ac.uk/icail03/
24 - 28 June, 2003 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sponsored by:
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
The Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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The field of AI and Law is concerned with:
the study of legal reasoning and argumentation, using computational methods;
the formal representation of norms, normative actions, normative systems and norm-governed societies
and multi-agent systems;
the investigation of techniques from advanced information technology, using law as the example
domain;
applications of advanced information technology to support tasks in the legal domain.
ICAIL 2003 will be held under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and
Law (IAAIL), an organisation devoted to promoting research and development in the eld 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 collabo-
ration. Previous ICAIL conferences have been held bi-annually since 1987, with Proceedings published by
ACM. As with these past conferences, the accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
by ACM.
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
Modelling Norms for Multi-Agent Interaction or Electronic Institutions
Modelling contracts and other speech acts for electronic agents
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 and short papers on applications are warmly welcome. They should include a clear description
of the motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the current state of implementation
together with an evaluation of any implementation. Demonstrations related to papers on application are
also welcome.
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 will be presented at the
conference banquet, will receive a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2003. Student papers whose
authors wish to be considered for this award should be clearly designated as such when they are submitted
to the Programme Chair. Further, funding to cover travel expenditures will be available. Noti cation will
be made through the ICAIL web site.
ICAIL WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
ICAIL 2003 will include a programme of tutorials, invited talks, and software demonstrations. Proposals
for tutorials and workshops are also invited, and should be sent to the Programme Chair by December
15th, 2002.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Richard Susskind, Mason and StrathClyde University, United Kingdom
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 15, 2002
Submission of papers: March 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2003
Camera-ready copies: May 20, 2003
Conference: 24 - 28 June, 2003
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The Programme Chair must receive paper submissions by March 1, 2003. Style les for MS 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 le is used) are also invited, particularly in the area of "application experi-
ences". Electronic paper submissions are strongly preferred and should be sent to the Programme Chair
as an email attachment, using MS Word, RTF, PDF or PostScript format. To submit by ordinary mail,
send six (6) hard copies of the complete paper to the Programme Chair at the address below. Guidelines
for authors, including downloadable style files and templates, are available at the conference WEB site.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
Programme Chair
Giovanni Sartor
CIRSFID - Universita' di Bologna, Via Galliera 3, 40121, BOLOGNA Italy
Email: sartor@cirfid.unibo.it, Home page: http://www.cirfid.unibo.it/~sartor,Tel: +39-51-2098771, Fax:
+39-51-2098780
Conference Chair
John Zeleznikow
Faculty of Law University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Scotland,
United Kingdom
Email: john.zeleznikow@ed.ac.uk, Tel: +44-131-650-9704, Fax: +44-131-650-6317
Conference Co-Chair
Lillian Edwards
The Edinburgh Law School, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Scotland, United Kingdom
Email: L.Edwards@ed.ac.uk, Tel: +44-131-650-2006, Fax: +44-131-650-6317
Secretary/Treasurer
Carole Hafner
161 Cullinane Hall, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Email: hafner@ccs.neu.edu, Tel: +1-617-373-5116, Fax: +1-617-373-5121
Assistant Secretary/Treasurer
Ronald Leenes
Universiteit Twente Faculteit, Bestuurskunde Vakgroep Staat en Politiek, Postbus 217 7500, AE
Enschede, The Netherlands
Email: R.E.Leenes@bsk.utwente.nl, Tel: +31-53-4894231, Fax: +31-53-4894734
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Giovanni Sartor (chair), Universita di Bologna, Italy
Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Zenon Bankowski, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Trevor J.M.Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Danielle Bourcier, CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
Karl L. Branting, LiveWireLogic, Morrisville, USA
Rosaria Conte, CNR Rome, Italy
Anne Gardner, Stanford, USA
Lillian Edwards, University of Edinburgh, UK
Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin, Germany
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA
Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
Peter Jackson, West Group, USA
Andrew J.I. Jones, King's College London, UK
Steve Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, USA
Ronald Loui, Washington University, USA
L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA
Anja Oskamp, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Edwina Rissland, University of Massachussets, USA
Burkhard Schaefer, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marek J. Sergot, Imperial College, UK
Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia
Bart Verheij, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tom van Engers, ACM Radboud Winkels, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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