Call for Paper
12th International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2018)
associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2018
(isAI 2018)

Raiosha, Hiyoshi Campus in Keio University
12 and 13 November 2018 - Yokohama, Japan

Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics. 
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Model of legal reasoning
•Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
•Legal term ontology
•Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
•Translation of legal documents
•Information retrieval of legal texts
•Computer-aided law education
•Use of Informatics and AI in law
•Legal issues on applications of robotics and AI to society
•Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
•Natural language processing for legal knowledge 
•Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems 
•Normative Systems/Deontic Logic
•Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain 

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURIX 2018 (The 31th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2018 is as follows: 
1.Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2018 and JURIX2018 must note this on the title page. 
2.A paper to be presented at JURISIN2018 must be withdrawn from JURIX2018 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors. 
3.If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2018. 

Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag LNAI series after the second round of review after the workshop.

Invited Speakers 
 Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
 Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan 

Important Dates
 Submission Deadline: August 30, 2018(tentative)( AOE )
 Notification: September 30, 2018(tentative) 
 Camera-ready due: October 10, 2018(tentative) ( AOE )

Steering Committee members
 Takehiko Kasahara, Toin Yokohama University
 Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
 Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
 Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
 Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
 Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan

Advisory Committee Members
 Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
 Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK 
 Tomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany
 Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
 Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
 John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

Program  Committee Members
 Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
 Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK
 Ryuta Arisaka, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 Kristijonas Cyras, Imperial College London, UK
 Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
 Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
 Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
 Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
 Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
 Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
 Tatsuhiko Inatani, Kyoto University, Japan
 Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University, Japan
 Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
 Tetsuro Kawamoto, AIST, Japan
 Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
 Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan
 Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, Chaina
 Brian Logan, The University of Nottingham, UK
 Hatsuru Morita, Tohoku University, Japan
 Yoichi Motomura, AIST, Japan
 Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
 Yoshiaki Nishigai, Nihon University, Japan
 Konatsu Nishigai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
 Katsumi Nitta, Titech, Japan
 Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
 Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
 Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
 Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
 Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University, Japan
 Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
 Akira Shimazu, JAIST, Japan
 Fumio Shimpo, Keio University, Japan
 Kazuko Takahashi, Kansei Gakuin University, Japan
 Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan
 Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
 Rob van den Hoven van Genderen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
 Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
 Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
 Harumichi Yuasa, Institute of Information Security, Japan
 Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University, Japan

COLIEE 2018
This year, JURISIN will co-located with the Fifth Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE-2018).
The motivation for the competition is to help create a research community of practice for the capture and use of legal information.
Please visit the homepage of COLIEE2018
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/COLIEE2018/
to see the detail of the competition.

For further information, please contact 
 Katsumi Nitta, 
 Workshop Chair, Tokyo Institute of Technology
 nitta 'at' dis.titech.ac.jp