*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** 2nd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland April 27 or 28, 2009 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=34&ws=lit2009 *************************************************************************** Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2009 *************************************************************************** The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology workshop weld as part of the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems. The BIS Conference is held annually and is a leading world conference in the area of Business Information Systems. Submissions are rigorously refereed. Accepted papers are published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series. After a long hiatus, the domain of Law and Information Technology is finally receiving much attention, not only from researchers, but also from practitioners. Hence there is a need for forums that discuss new research and innovative applications in Law and Information Technology. The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in the interdisciplinary domain of Law and Information Technology. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Automated semantic indexing, information extraction and categorization of legal documents * Computational models for legal reasoning * Information Technology and Dispute Resolution * Information Technology and Crime Prevention * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Law * Knowledge management in the legal domain * Legal argumentation * Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning * Legal electronic agents * Legal Expert Systems * Legal ontologies and their creation and use * Legal reasoning and its computer representation * Natural language processing in law * Online Dispute Resolution * Question answering retrieval in law and governmental services * Risk management in law * Semantic Web technologies for law and e-government * Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law * Text mining and knowledge extraction in law SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lit2009. Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * February 1, 2009 - submission deadline for papers * February 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 15, 2009 - submission of final papers * April 27 or 28, 2009 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Piotr Stolarski * Tadeusz Tomaszewski PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) * Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Australia * Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva IJURIS, Brasil * Hugo Hoeschl, IJURIS Research Group, Brasil * Arno Lodder, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw, Poland * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria, Austria * Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia * Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland *************************************************************************** -- Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ > Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ > BIS 2009 Organizing Committee