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

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 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