Appel: Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04)

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-CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: June 25, 2004-

                          Workshop on
           Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04)

   WWW: http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2004.htm


         Part of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '04)

              * Proceedings published by Springer LNCS *
                  October 25-29 2003 , Larnaca, Cyprus



In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-governments, content
standardizations, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of
regulatory and legal knowledge is a critical. Modeling and deploying
regulatory knowledge has some specifics that differentiate it out from
other kinds of knowledge modeling: reasoning methods and application
scenarios, the legal weight (/order) of regulations, parsing legal
texts requires special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in
cross-boarder regulations, etc. This workshop aims at bringing
together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial
practitioners to discuss issues involved in modeling regulatory
ontologies. Regulatory ontologies typically involve the description of
rules and regulations within the social world. In particular, we seek
original contributions on the following issues of interest, but not
limited to:

  - Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis,
    representation, modularization and layering, reusability,
    evolution and dynamics, etc;

  - Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies;

  - Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory
    compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.

  - Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations;

  - Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML,
    ADR/ODR-XML,...);

  - Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations,
    legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc;

  - Task models for socially regulated activities;

  - Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory
    ontologies in legal knowledge based systems, legal information
retrieval,
    e-governments, e-commerce;

  - Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents.

Invited Speaker
=====================
<To be announced...>

Submissions
=====================
We invite papers of no more than 14 pages length (Springer style format)
Describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems
or use cases, or trends in this research area. Submitted papers will be
fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas
presented as well as on technical aspects. *****Accepted papers will be
published by Springer as a part of Proceedings of the ?On The Move
Federated Conferences 2004?. Please email your submission by
25-June-2003 in PDF or Postscript format to Mustafa Jarrar
(mjarrar_at_vub.ac.be) AND Aldo Gangemi (a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it).

Important dates
==============================
   - June 18, 2004 : Deadline for submission of Abstracts
   - June 25, 2004 : Deadline for submission of papers
   - July 25, 2004 : Notification to paper authors
   - August 20, 2004 : Final version of accepted papers
   - Oct 28, 2004 : Workshop
Organizers and general chairs
==============================
   - Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact)
      http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa
- Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome (Contact)
    http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html

Program Committee
====================================
<under construction...>
   * Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick, UK
   * Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
   * André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA
   * Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia
   * Bart Verheij, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
   * Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA
   * Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
   * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
   * Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
   * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
   * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
   * Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy
   * Marc Wilikens, EU JRC, Ispra, Italy
   * Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
   * Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
   * Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento,
Italy
   * Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain
   * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium
   * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
   * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA
   * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
   * Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes
d'Information, France


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