Virtual Worlds: Trust, Security, Rule of Law (TrustVWs 2009)

Workshop in conjunction with UCMedia 2009,
First International Conference on User Centric Media

Venice, Italy, 9 December 2009

http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/trustvws2009/

The workshop focuses on legally ruled collaboration in virtual worlds
(VWs) in the light of security and trust. Virtual worlds are treated
not as a game but as an extension of the real world. The approaches
discussed can be viewed from different perspectives – informatics, law
and legal informatics. The rule of law, a legal principle, is extended
to virtual worlds. Most virtual worlds, e.g. Second Life, are of
client-server architecture. Therefore certain disputes can be solved
by administrators. The workshop aims at peer-to-peer virtual world
platforms. The issues targeted at user-centric media community consist
of personalisation, real-time, 3D, chat and social context. Special
attention is given to future Internet perspectives, in particular,
technological, legal and content related perspectives.

IMPORTANT DATES

- PAPER SUBMISSION: extended to 27 September 2009
- Notification of acceptance: 19 October 2009
- Publishable papers: 8 November 2009

TOPICS OF INTEREST (include but are not limited to)

- virtual world security;
- public key infrastructure; time stamping
- use cases; user needs
- P2P networks
- trust models; trust management systems
- avatar reputation models
- setting rules and laws; legal issues
- democracy; voting
- online dispute resolution
- virtual world engines; scripting
- educational scenarios; learning support

TARGETED COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS

- informatics, computing
- legal informatics
- jurists

INVITED SPEAKER

Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and
Economic Law, Comparative Law, Multimedia and Telecommunication Law
at the University of Goettingen, Germany,
http://www.lehrstuhl-spindler.uni-goettingen.de/.
TENTATIVE TITLE: “On legal issues in virtual worlds”.

SUBMISSION

Workshop papers should be electronically submitted trough the ASSYST
system http://www.assyst-online.org/ (up to 6 pages, LNICST format).
Publication of workshop papers is planned in Lecture Notes of ICST by
Springer, same publication as UCMedia 2009 conference proceedings.

All publishable workshop papers will be published on the UCMedia 2009
website. A number of the best papers of the conference including
workshops will be published in “ACM Springer Mobile Networks and
Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobility and
User-Centric Media”.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Vytautas Cyras, Vilnius University, Lithuania, chair
- Peeter Laud, Cybernetica, Estonia, http://www.cyber.ee/
- Gerald Spindler, University of Goettingen, Germany
- Francesco Zuliani, Nergal, Italy, http://www.nergal.it/

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

- Vytautas Cyras, Vilnius University, Lithuania,
vytautas.cyras(at)mif.vu.lt, http://www.mif.vu.lt/~cyras/

- Marianna Panebarco, Panebarco & C., Italy,
marianna(at)panebarco.it, http://www.panebarco.it/

Organizing is partially supported by EU DG InfSo FP7-ICT-2007-1
project VirtualLife (Secure, Trusted and Legally Ruled Collaboration
Environment in Virtual Life), http://www.ict-virtuallife.eu/.

REGISTRATION DETAILS: to follow on http://www.usercentricmedia.org/.

The 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 17-18 December 2009

http://www.frg.eur.nl/jurix2009

Due to numerous requests we decided to postpone the submission deadline to Monday 14 September 2009 11.59pm CET. Interested authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts by Friday 11 September 2009.

Call for Papers

For more than 20 years the Jurix Conference has provided an international forum for academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics for sharing ideas and experiences on the representation of legal content and its representation in computer systems.

The 22nd edition of Jurix will be held in Rotterdam, and it will be organised by the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge (foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications), including but not limited to the following:

• systems supporting lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation
• systems supporting the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, work?ow management, monitoring implementation
• systems supporting the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases
• systems supporting police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations
• systems supporting public administration, in applying regulations and managing information
• systems for the retrieval of legal information
• systems supporting legal education
• systems for digital-rights management
• systems supporting the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods
• systems supporting alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line
• systems and methods to support regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes
• systems and method to support policies and legal issues for social networks
• theoretical foundations for the use of Arti?cial Intelligence in the legal domain
• models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures
• models of legal inference and argumentation
• methods for verifying and validating legal knowledge systems
• methods and techniques for managing legal information in the semantic web
• methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts
• methods for modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions

Deadline for papers submission is September 7th, 2009. Papers should be submitted through the Jurix Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the style ?les and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference.

The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Program Chair by email.

Important Dates

September 11th, 2009 Deadline for submission of abstracts
September 14th, 2009 Extended deadline for submission of papers
September 14th, 2009 Deadline for submission of tutorials, workshops and demonstration proposals

October 5th, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance
October 19th, 2009 Camera-ready papers due
December 16th and 19th, 2009 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
December 17-18, 2009 Jurix 2009 Main Confernce

Contacts

You can contact us by sending an email to Guido Governatori or to Kees van Noortwijk

Program Committee Chair

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia

Organisation Committee Chair

Kees van Noortwijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Jurix 2007 – The 20th Anniversary International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

First Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops

http://www.jurix2007.org

For 20 years now, JURIX conferences have been successful annual international meetings with scholars and practitioners in the field of Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. This year