=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 6th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2014) in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2014) Larnaca, Cyprus May 21 or 22 or 23, 2014 /bis2013/wscfp.php?ws=lit2014 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: April 4, 2014 (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 2014 meeting will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus as part of the 17th 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 6th 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 2013 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 * Modeling negotiation and contract formation * Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law * Knowledge management in the legal domain * Formal and computational models of legal reasoning * Formal and computational models of argumentation * Computational models of evidential reasoning * Computational models of case-based legal reasoning * Information extraction & categorization of legal documents * Information Technology & Crime Prevention * Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law * Text mining and knowledge extraction in law * Law & Future Internet technologies * Legal argumentation * Legal aspects of BIS * Legal aspects of IT * Legal Expert Systems * Legal ontologies - creation, use & lifecycles * 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 * Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial, insurance law) * Validation of legal knowledge * Modeling norms for multi-agent systems 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=lit2014. Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2014 will be published in BIS 2014 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 2014 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to BIS 2014 participants in October 2014 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 4, 2014 (deadline extended) - submission deadline for papers * April 27, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection * May 10, 2014 - submission of final papers * May 21 or 22 or 23, 2014 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznań University of Economics, Department of Information Systems, Poland (http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en) * Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland (http://www.umcs.lublin.pl/informatyka) CHAIRS * Erich Schweighofer * Piotr Stolarski * John Zeleznikow * Tomasz Żurek PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva IJURIS, Brasil * Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland * Katarzyna Budzyńska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia * Matthias Grabmair, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Jaromir Savelka, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Uri J. Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria * Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia * Adam Wyner, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom * John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia * Tomasz Żurek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland ===========================================================================