Computational Law: a Bridge Towards the Business Rules
Call for papers
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One-day workshop in conjunction with ICAIL2011 Conference
Monday, June 6th,
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2011-workshop/?page_id=32

Objectives:
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This Workshop will provide a collaborative forum for the participants to exchange recent or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community in the area of Contract and Regulation modelling using computable models for capturing business procedures reusable in the information system in favour to the e-services. The program committee seeks papers and proposals that address various aspects of contracts and regulations, including enterprise modelling, e-business rules, procedural rules, formal and legal aspects with the aim of providing a balanced mix of presentations from these different perspectives.

The duration of the workshop is one day and this workshop will be held on June 6th 2011 in conjunction with ICAIL2011 conference and the best papers from this workshop were published in Springer LNCS/LNAI.

Topics:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Contract and Regulations as a basis for coordination of cross-organisational interactions
* System theoretic point of view Formalisms for expressing contracts and Regulations
* Contract description languages for Contract negotiation and validation
* Standards for capturing rules in contracts and regulations (e.g. RIF, Legal RuleML, LKIF, SBVR, etc):
* Run-time contract monitoring and enforcement Standardisation
* Systems Contract management requirements for specific contracts,
* Standards/initiatives (e.g. Web Services, BPEL4WS, WS-CDL, tc)
* Links between contracts, regulations, business processes and business
* Services Practical experience with contract and regulations management systems Role

Submission Guidelines:
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To enable lively and productive discussions, attendance will be limited to 25-30  participants and submission of a paper or a position statement is required. All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer format and include the author’s name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted either as postscript or PDF files  using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complaw2011

Important Dates:
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Workshop papers due:       April 20th
Author notification:            May 16th
Final papers due:               May 31th
Workshop date:                  June 6th

Workshop Organizers:
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Michael Genesereth, Stanford University
Guido Governatori NICTA,  Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna