CLAT

Computer-aided Law and Advanced Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS - CLAT 2006

The 3rd Computer-aided Law and Advanced Technologies forum (CLAT 2007) will be held as part of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007), March 11-15, 2007, Seoul, Korea (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/)

http://www.clat.unibo.it
http://www.mfn.unipmn.it/~lavinia/clat2007

SAC 2007

For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been an essential forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and hosted by the Seoul National University in Seoul, and Suwon University in Gyeonggi-do.

CLAT 2007

Advances in computer applications and the social cyberspaces created by computing networks highlight the need for a revised legal framework to deal with emerging issues. Similarly, the legal domain can benefit from such technical advances.
On the other hand, dematerialization of documents and documental flows call for appropriate technical tools that allow to design paradigms meeting the relevant legal requirements.
A combined effort of the computer science and law communities would have benefical consequences in areas such as e-Business, e-Government, e-Commerce,...
A track that focuses on the intersection of law and technology represents a broad and diverse forum for the discussion of research in computer-aided law and can provide synergies when aligned with other areas of SAC.

Of particular interest is the identification of a new technology-aided paradigm, one which assures security and trust among its practitioners. This would entail the management of communications and electronic “relationships”, both private and public.
Topics to be addressed will cover the use of computer technologies within public administration (e-Government) and the private sector (e-Commerce), among several other key areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technological support for:

Agent-treatable legal issues
Civil liability
Codes of conduct
Contracts
Copyright protection
Counter-Terrorism Initiatives
Criminal liability
e-Business
e-Governance
e-Government
Electronic Court proceedings
Electronic evidence
Intellectual property
Legal publicity
On-line dispute resolution
Privacy
Protection of consumer rights
Torts
Trust and reputation

Legal aspects of:

Agent-based Paradigms
Artificial Intelligence
Cybercrime
Databases
Dematerialization of Documental Flows
Digital Signatures
Electronic Documents
Electronic Mail
Network Security
Online Creative Industries
Privacy-preserving Data-Mining
Public Key Infrastructures
Security Mechanisms (Encryption, Authentication, Access Control, etc.)
Simulation
Software protection
Traffic Monitoring and Logging
Trust and reputation models
Virtual Communities
Watermarking and Fingerprinting Techniques

Programme

The workshop will include paper presentations and panel sessions over the course of one day. The programme will be available at the conference site and at the track sites.

Track Chairs

Lavinia Egidi
University of Piemonte Orientale
Computer Science Department
Italy
Lavinia Egidi

Giovanni Sartor
University of Bologna
Department of Law - CIRSFID
Italy
Giovanni Sartor

Alessandra Villecco Bettelli
University of Bolognaa
Department of Law - CICU
Italy
Alessandra Villecco

Program Committee

Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Francesco Bergadano, University of Turin, Italy
Davide Cavagnino, University of Turin, Italy
Junesun Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Enrico Denti, University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK
Sang-Jo Jong, Seoul National University, Korea
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, USA
Minsoo Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Mario Losano, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Rosa Meo, University of Turin, Italy
Tope Omitola, University of Cambridge, UK
Marinella Petrocchi, IIT, CNR, Italy
Henry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Lorenza Saitta, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Marek Sergot, Imperial College of London, UK
Emily Weitzenböck, University of Oslo, Norway
Stefano Zunarelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Submission Guidelines

We encourage submissions of papers describing original research not previously published. According to the conference policy, papers cannot be submitted to multiple tracks of SAC 2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three referees, both with legal and technical competences. The review process will be blind.

The length of submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages in ACM format (approximately 8000 words). However, notice that accepted papers exceeding 5 pages (approximately 5000 words) will be charged a fee for each extra page.

Submissions will be managed electronically. For further submission guidelines, please see the track sites: http://www.clat.unibo.it http://www.mfn.unipmn.it/~lavinia/clat2007

Publications

The accepted papers will be published in their entirety in the ACM SAC 2007 proceedings.

Registration

Detailed information on registration conditions and fees will be available at SAC 2007 web-site:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007

Contacts

Alessandra Villecco Bettelli
University of Bologna
Department of Law - CICU
Italy
alessandra.villecco@unibo.it
Tel. +39 051 2099654
Fax +39 051 2099624

Lavinia Egidi
University of Piemonte Orientale
Computer Science Department
Italy
lavinia.egidi@mfn.unipmn.it
Phone: +39 0131 360187
Fax: +39 0131 360198

IMPORTANT DATES

Sept. 22, 2006: Paper submissions
Oct. 16, 2006: Author notification
Oct 30, 2006: Camera-Ready Copy

OTHER SAC 2007 TECHNICAL TRACKS

A.I., Computational Logic, Image Analysis
Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems
Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems
Autonomic Computing
Bioinformatics
Computer Applications in Health Care
Computer Ethics and Human Values
Computer Forensics
Computer Networks
Computer Security
Constraint Solving and Programming
Coordination Models, Languages and Architectures
Data Mining
Data Streams
Database Theory, Technology, and Applications
Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems
Document Engineering
E-Commerce Technologies
Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
Evolutionary Computation
Geoinformatics and Technology
Geometric Computing and Reasoning
Handheld Computing
Information Access and Retrieval
Mobile Computing and Applications
Model Transformation
Multimedia and Visualization
Object Oriented Programming Languages and Systems
Operating Systems and Adaptive Applications
Organizational Engineering
Programming for Separation of Concerns
Programming Languages
Reliable Computations and their Applications
Semantic Web and Application
Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition
Software Engineering
Software Verification
System On Chip Design and Software Supports
Trust, Recommendations, Evidence, and other Collaborative Know-how
Ubiquitous Computing
Web Technologies