[ln] Appel: WORM 2005 Workshop

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:00:05 +0200
From: "Jos Lehmann" <jos.lehmann at istc.cnr.it>
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CALL FOR PAPERS

WORM 2005
The 3rd International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies

http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2005.htm

31 Oct-4 Nov 2005
Larnaca, Cyprus

part of OTM05
OnTheMove Federated Conferences
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/


== WORM 2005 Description

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/2004/papers/submit/

== 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

== 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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