AICOL@JURIX2020, and AICOL Springer Volume 2021
OBJECTIVES
This is a call for papers for the final publication of the fifth AICOL volume in March/April 2021. As announced in the last AICOL (at JURIX 2020), papers submitted to former AICOL and scientific AI & Law Workshops from 2018 onwards can be updated and resubmitted for a second round of reviews. Authors are also invited to submit new contributions.
Papers are regularly published at LNAI Springer Series. See past editions at:
- AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems I, and II
- AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems III
- AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems IV-V
- AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems VI-VIII
The AICOL2021 volume is focused on AI, political and legal theory, jurisprudence, philosophy of technology and the law, social intelligence and NorMAS. In addition, this
edition will devote special attention to the COVID-19 crisis.
TOPICS
• Intentionality and collective action
• Social, Collective and Emotional Intelligence
• Cognitive models
• Fundamental legal concepts and principles
• Argumentation
• Legal XML and XML Rules
• Agreement technologies, ODR and e-institutions
• Legal theory, Ethics and Regulatory models
• Law, Intellectual Property, Metadata
• Vocabularies and inferences for rights and legal aspects
• Normative and Deontic Logic
• Normative Multi-Agent systems (nMAS)
• Access control, trust & security
• Government Linked Open Data (GLOD)
• Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• Legal ontologies and legal knowledge graphs
• Smart Data and the Semantic Web
• Security, Data protection, Privacy by Design
• Governance and deliberative models of democracy
• Blockchain distributed ledger technology for the legal domain
• eDeliberation and eParticipation
• eJustice and eLegislation
• Visualization of legal knowledge
• NLP tool for capturing legal knowledge
• Legal design and visualization of the legal knowledge
Special track on COVID-19
AICOL cannot ignore the dramatic change of the state of play caused by the COVID-19 crisis. Many datathons, hackathons and coding events took place during the crisis summoning the brightest talents to fight the pandemics. The AI community was requested to contribute to this effort, and the response was manifested in a number of different solutions. The legal informatics community should not lag behind, as a burst of new social, legal and technical problems has erupted, and they should be addressed together.
• Joint social, legal, political, philosophical, and technical approaches to fight COVID-19. In this global emergency moment, the interdisciplinary studies could contribute to apply holistic approach avoiding the polarization on only one aspect of this complex system.
• Open Government Dataset with norms enacted around COVID-19. If the effectivity of measures has to be evaluated, norms have to be queryable as data. Any description of resource, method or algorithm will be welcome.
• COVID-19 tracing apps legal comparative analysis, technology benchmarking, novel solutions to preserve privacy and democracy, review of state of the art with critical comment.
• Solutions to hasten judiciary proceedings. After the collapse of hospitals, the collapse of courts has followed. Contributions for alleviating bottlenecks are welcome.
• Treatment of fast-changing norms. Many norms have been issued in the last few months as a response to COVID-19, at every level: government, local administrations, internal policies in companies. Papers addressing the fast-changing and intertwined nature of these norms are welcome.
• AI solutions for fighting COVID-19 without to exceed in a super-surveillance, investigating also how the autonomy of the medical treatment is balanced with the public interests.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission (peer-review): January 23rd 2021 (deadline)
Notification of acceptance: February 5th 2021
Camera ready (Springer LNAI): February 10th 2021
Publication: March/April 2021
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers should be in English and must be submitted at
AICOL-2020 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicol20181
Position Papers (8 pages)
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Min. 6000 words and max. 15000 words.
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS-LNAI format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members
AICOL2020 VOLUME EDITORS
Monica Palmirani (Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,
CIRSFID-AI, University of Bologna)
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Pompeu Casanovas (La Trobe University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin)
Giovanni Sartor (Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, CIRSFID-AI, University of Bologna and European University Institute)