[Corpora-List] CFP: WORM 2004

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Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 17:19:14 MET DST

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    ========CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: June 25, 2004===================

                           Workshop on
                      Regulatory Ontologies
                    
      WWW: 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 cuasablity, 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:
    ================
    Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
      <Title and abstract: 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-Verlag as a part of Proceedings of the ?On The
    Move Federated Conferences 2004?. Authors can submit their abstracts &
    papers via the following link: WORM Submit-Page.
     
    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 program chairs
    ==============================
     - Mustafa Jarrar (Contact), STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
         http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
     - Aldo Gangemi (Contact), Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome
         http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa

    Program Committee
    ===================
     * Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick, UK
     * Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
     * Andr? Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA
     * Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia
     * Bart Verheij, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
     * Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA
     * Cecilia Magnusson Sj?berg, Stockholm University, Sweden
     * 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
     * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France
     * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
     * Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy
     * Karl Best, OASIS, USA
     * Marc Wilikens, EU Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
     * Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
     * Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
     * Nicklas Lundblad, Viktoria Institute/Framkom, Sweden
     * Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain
     * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium
     * Robert Meersman, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
     * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA
     * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
     * Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Syst?mes d'Information, INSA de Lyon, France



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