[ln] Appel: WORM0'5, 3rd Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:54:01 +0200
From: "Mustafa Jarrar" <mjarrar- at vub.ac.be>
Message-Id: <20050607164743.F270C8DB6 at mach.vub.ac.be>
X-url: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/worm/2005/papers


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========CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: June 24, 2005===================

                   The 3nd Workshop on
                  Regulatory Ontologies

  WWW: www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2005.htm
 Part of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '05)
      **Proceedings published by Springer LNCS **
          4 Nov 2005, Larnaca, Cyprus

In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-government, content
standardization, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of
regulatory and legal knowledge is 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 require special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in
cross-border 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 (but not limited to) the following issues of
interest:

- 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

== WORM 2005 Submission

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-Verlag as a
part of Proceedings of OTM05.

Papers and abstracts submission via
  http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/worm/2005/papers

== WORM 2005 Important Dates
June 24, 2005 : Abstract Submission Deadline June 29, 2005 : Paper
Submission Deadline July 29, 2005 : Acceptance Notification August 20,
2005 : Final Version Due October 31 - November 4, 2005: Workshop

== WORM 2005 Organizers
Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium:
     mjarrar at vub.ac.be
Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome:
     a.gangemi at istc.cnr.it
Joost Breuker , Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands:
     breuker at lri.jur.uva.nl
Jos Lehmann, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome:
     jos.lehmann at istc.cnr.it
André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA:
     avalente at ksventures.com

== WORM 2005 Program Committee (tbc)
* 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
* Cecilia Magnusson Sjoberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
* Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
* Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Guiraude Lame, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France
* Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
* Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
* Jos Lehmann, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome Italy
* Layman Allen, University of Michigan, USA
* Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy
* Marc Wilikens, EU Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
* Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de  Madrid, Spain
* Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
* Robert Tolksdorf, Free university of Berlin, Germany
* Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain
* Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium
* Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA
* Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
* Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
* Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
* Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systemes
d'Information, INSA de Lyon, France


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