Call for contributions
Contributors are invited to submit papers, position statements and system demonstrations on topics including
but not restricted to:
- Computational Models of Evidential Reasoning and Argumentation
- Reasoning with Uncertainty in Evidential Reasoning
- Computational Models of Inferring Causality
- Evidence-gathering and Investigation Algorithms
- Evidence-gathering through Internet
- Advanced Judicial Support Systems
- Intelligent Legal Tutoring Systems in the field of Evidence and Fact-finding
Legal and philosophical contributors are encouraged to submit article-form papers, to be
refereed by the Workshop Organizing Committee and presented during the workshop.
Application developers are encouraged to demonstrate their systems and present papers
describing the nature and purpose of the application,
the techniques employed, and the current state of implementation.
Persons interested in making presentations without submitting a paper are
encouraged to submit a "statement of interest."
Electronic submissions of workshop contributions are strongly preferred and should be
sent to the Workshop Organizing Committee Chair as an email attachment, using Word or
PDF format. To submit by ordinary mail, send six (6) hard copies
of the complete paper or other contribution to the Organizing Chair at the following
address.
Prof. R. Shapira
Bar Ilan University
Faculty of Law
Ramat Gan 52900
ISRAEL
Workshop program:
9.10-10.10: Research overviews:
- Peter Tillers (from a jurisprudential perspective)
- Henry Prakken (from an AI & Law perspective)
10.10-10.40: Coffee
10.40-12.10: Paper presentations (1): Causation / Statistical evidence
- Ron Shapira (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Graphical solution of the
problem of causality.
- Jos Lehmann and Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
On defining common sense concepts for legal causal reasoning.
- Burkhard Schafer (University of Edinburgh, Scotland),
Elementary, my dear Watson: the troublesome journey of
statistical evidence from scene-of-crime to courtroom.
12.10-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Paper presentations (2): System demo /
The nature of legal discourse
- Marianne Belis (Paris Academy of Computer Science)
and Paul Snow, Expert system for reasoning in uncertainty in legal cases.
- Bart Verheij (Maastricht University, The Netherlands),
Anchored narratives and dialectical argumentation.
- Ronald J. Allen (Northwestern University, USA),
Ambiguity, unpredictability and common sense.
15.00-15.30: Coffee/tea.
15.30-16.30: panel discussion
Panel members: Craig Callen, Peter Tillers, L. Thorne McCarty and Henry Prakken.
