Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies

["Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG-DAY)" <Donald.Bergeron@lexisnexis.com>]

Given the deadline we are unlikely to participate from a papers point of
view. Participation in the workshop and acquisition of last years papers
could be quite useful.

Regards,

Don

Dear TC Chairs,

Please note the enclosed call for papers.  Keep me in the loop if any of
you decide to participate.  

Thanks,
Jane Harnad
OASIS

PS:  Deadline is June 30th.

 
====================  CALL FOR PAPERS     =======================
 
                    The 2nd 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 2004 , 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:
================
Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
 
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:
> ==================
>  - Jun. 30, 2004 : Deadline for submission of Abstracts
>  - Jul.  4, 2004 : Deadline for submission of papers
>  - Aug.  4, 2004 : Notification to paper authors
>  - Aug. 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 Systmes
d'Information, INSA de Lyon, France