JUSMOD 2023: 2nd International Workshop on Digital JUStice, digital law and conceptual MODeling Congress Center of the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal, August 2, 2023 |
Conference website | https://jusmod2023.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jusmod2023 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 3, 2023 |
Submission deadline | July 10, 2023 |
2nd International Workshop on Digital Justice, Digital Law, and Conceptual Modeling
in conjunction with the 42st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2023)
Law plays a crucial role in almost every aspect of our both public and private life. Thousands of legal documents are constantly produced by institutional bodies, such as Parliaments and Courts, which constitute a prominent source of information and knowledge for judges, lawyers, and other professionals involved in legal decision-making. To cope with growing volume, complexity, and articulation of legal documents as well as to foster digital justice and digital law, increasing effort is being devoted to digital transformation processes in the legal domain.
Conceptual Modeling (CM) plays a crucial role in this scenario to formalize entities, its features, and its relations. Also, conceptual modeling joined with well-founded ontologies has been used to harmonize different terminologies used in legal documents as well as to promote the development and the adoption of shared vocabularies and open linked data in legislation, case-law, and other relevant legal information. Furthermore, advanced functionalities for legal data and process modeling and management are advocated, embracing modern technologies like Semantic Web, NLP, AI, to enable semantic text search and exploration, legal knowledge extraction and formalization, legal decision-making and legal analytics.
JUSMOD aims to constitute a meeting venue for a variety of researchers involved in digital justice and digital law, originating a rich community crossing different disciplines besides computer science, such as law, legal informatics, management, economics and social sciences. The workshop will provide an op- portunity to share, discuss, and identify new approaches and solutions for modeling, analysis, formalization, and interpretation of legal data and related processes.
Submission Guidelines
JUSMOD invites submissions of high-quality papers describing original and unpublished research contributions. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Regular paper (max 10 pages, including images and references): research papers describing a completed study, including negative results and early exploratory efforts.
- Short paper (max 6 pages): position, vision, and lesson-learnt papers about planned/in-progress study, including presentations of preliminary results.
The authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Papers proposals must be submitted via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=er2023
Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one author is required to register to the conference.
The proceedings of JUSMOD will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS.
The organization of a journal special issue about the workshop topics is currently under consideration. The authors of workshop accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended contribution to the special issue (if confirmed).
List of Topics
We solicit submissions related to digital justice and digital law in general, also bringing out modeling and conceptualization features; topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Logics applied to law
- Digital transformation, digital justice, digital law
- Legal knowledge representation
- Harmonization of law
- Argumentation-based modeling
- Legal ontologies: design, reuse, applications, experiences
- Linked data and knowledge graphs in the legal domain
- Thesauri, shared vocabularies, and taxonomies in the legal domain
- Domain-Specific Visual Modeling Language (DSVML) and law
- Visual law, legal design, and correlated themes
- Process modeling in digital justice
- Legal data interpretation
- Modeling and law version control: normative systems, judicial decisions, contracts
- Legal document annotation
- Legal knowledge extraction
- Semantic search and retrieval of legal data
- Ethics in legal data processing
- Legal analytics
- Quality of legal data modeling
- Online Dispute Resolution models
- Alternative Dispute Resolution models
Committees
Program Committee (in progress...)
Organizing committee
- Silvana Castano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Mattia Falduti, the Square Centre, Italy
- Cristine Griffo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Stefano Montanelli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Invited Speakers
t.b.a.
Publication
JUSMOD 2023 proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.
Venue
Congress Center of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-9 November, 2023
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to jusmod23@islab.di.unimi.it