=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 5th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2012) in conjunction with 15th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2012) Vilnius, Lithuania May 21 or 22 or 23, 2012 /bis2012/wscfp.php?ws=lit2012 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: April 13, 2012 (deadline extended) =========================================================================== The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT) Workshop is an annual event which gathers people interested in broadly understood Legal Informatics and its applications. The LIT 2012 meeting will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the 15th International Conference on Business Information Systems. As a continuation of previous editions, we invite people dealing with different domains closely related to legal matter and Information Technology.
The 5th Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology Workshop will be a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers to investigate challenges and opportunities in the emerging trends on the verge of law and IT. The workshop will examine vital issues, including law-related business processes, legal ontologies, description frameworks, discussing new research and innovative applications in Law, Information Technology as well as Insurance. The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in these interdisciplinary domains.
In the year 2011 all papers accepted to the workshop have been published in Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. We are planning to continue the cooperation with the publisher on this edition of the event. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Alternative & online Dispute Resolution * Computational models for legal reasoning * Information extraction & categorization of legal documents * Information Technology & Crime Prevention * Information Technology & Dispute Resolution * Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law * Knowledge management in the legal domain * Law & Future Internet technologies * Legal argumentation * Legal aspects of BIS * Legal aspects of IT * Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning * Legal electronic agents * Legal Expert Systems * Legal ontologies - creation, use & lifecycles * Legal reasoning and its computer representation * Natural language processing in law * Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services * Risk management & trust in law * Semantic indexing of legal documents * Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government * Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law * Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial, insurance law) * Text mining and knowledge extraction in law * Validation of legal knowledge SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0. The authors should include a 100-word abstract at the beginning of the paper, which clearly presents the achievement or contribution of the paper. Furthermore 4-7 keywords should describe the content of the submission. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lit2012. Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2012 will be published in BIS 2012 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. The volume will be edited by Witold Abramowicz. BIS 2012 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to BIS 2012 participants in October 2012 by regular mail. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * April 13, 2012 (deadline extended) - submission deadline for papers * April 22, 2012 - notification of acceptance/rejection * May 7, 2012 - submission of final papers * May 21 or 22 or 23, 2012 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Erich Schweighofer * Piotr Stolarski * John Zeleznikow PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Zsolt György Balogh, University of Pécs, Hungary * Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Australia * Daniele Bourcier, CNRS-CERSA Paris, France * Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva IJURIS, Brasil * Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands * Friedrich Lachmayer, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw, Poland * Marta Poblet, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan * Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia * John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia * Tomasz Żurek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland ===========================================================================