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-CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: June 25, 2004-
Workshop on
Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04)

WWW: http://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 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

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<To be announced...>



Submissions
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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 as a part of Proceedings of the “On The Move

Federated Conferences 2004”. Please email your submission by

25-June-2003 in PDF or Postscript format to Mustafa Jarrar

(mjarrar_at_vub.ac.be) AND Aldo Gangemi (a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it).
Important dates
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- 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 general chairs
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- Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact)
http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa- Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for
Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome (Contact) http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
Program Committee
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* Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick, UK * 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 * Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA * Carole
Hafner, Northeastern University, USA * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of
Twente, The Netherlands * Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA,
Amsterdam, Netherlands * Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy * Marc
Wilikens, EU JRC, Ispra, Italy * Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium * Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento,
Italy * Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool
Brussels, Belgium * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA * Valentina Tamma,
University of Liverpool, UK * Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des
Systèmes d'Information, France




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