From ANarayan@cen.ex.ac.uk Wed Mar 2 19:06:51 EST 1994 Article: 5673 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5673 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!rick From: ANarayan@cen.ex.ac.uk Subject: 4th National Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <1994Feb15.230101.15384@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: University of Exeter, UK. Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 23:01:01 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 159 X-Md4-Signature: 1809a80028779a01667ee03488f08805 Fourth National Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence 21 April 1994 - 22 April 1994 University of Exeter Departments of Law and Computer Science UK This fourth Conference (following on from the third Conference held at Aberystwyth in April 1992) will focus on the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas on current and next-generation computational representations of law. The programme is provided below. Registration: Conference registration will be on Thursday 21 April 1994 between 10.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. The Conference will close on Friday 22 April 1994 at 4.00 p.m. Conference Fees: Fees include all meals and accommodation from morning coffee on Thursday 21 April 1994 until afternoon tea on 22 April 1994. Full documentation and course materials will be provided and will be available on registration. Fees if paid before 28 February 1994 (Payment after 28 February 1994) Academics: 150 pounds (170 pounds) Practitioners and non-academics: 250 pounds (270 pounds) Students: 85 pounds (95 pounds) Non-participating guests: 100 pounds (110 pounds) The fees include admission to the tutorial. Payment: Cheques should be made payable to E.U.C.L.I.D. (Conference Account) Cancellations: If notice of cancellation is received (in writing) on or before March 30, 1994 we will refund the full conference fee, less a 30 pounds administrative charge. We regret, however, that no fee refund can be made for cancellations after this date but a substitute delegate may attend. Note: The organisers reserve the right to alter the published programme and speakers without prior notice. We also reserve the right to cancel the conference in which case the full fee will be refunded. Individual applications may have to be refused if the conference is over-subscribed. For further details and registration forms, please contact: Mrs Marlene Teague, Conference Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 PT. U.K. Telephone: (0)392 264061 Fax: (0)392 264067 e-mail: sec@dcs.exeter.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 21 April 1994 10.00 - 1.00 p.m. Registration 10.00 - 10.30 a.m. Coffee 10.30 - 1.00 p.m. Tutorial - Intelligent Knowledge Based Applications J Zeleznikow & D Hunter La Trobe University & Melbourne University 1.00 - 2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 - 2.10 p.m. Opening Address 2.10 - 3.45 p.m. Solutions Looking for Problems Carolus Grutters University of Nijmegen Integrated Expert Systems in Law Elio Fameli, Fabrizio Turchi Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Firenze Towards a Control-independent Representation of Legal Knowledge P S R Visser, R W van Kranlingen & H J van den Herik University of Leiden 3.45 - 4.15 p.m. Tea 4.15 - 5.45 p.m. Use of Precedents Based on Reasoning by Anlalogy in a Deductive Frame-work Paolo Guidotti Istituto per la Doementazione Guiridica, Firenze Reason Based Logic: General Considerations and Some Applications Jaap Hage University of Limburg The Implications for Statutory Drafting Arising from an Examination of the Lexical Methodologies of Legal Expert Systems David Slee and John Hobson University of Hertfordshire 5.45 - 7.15 p.m. Dinner 7.15 - 8.45 p.m. The PARCOM Legal Expert System Marie-Francine Moens ICRI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Reason Based Logic and Legal Knowledge Representation H B Verheij University of Limburg In Defence of Rule-Based Representations of Legal Knowledge Based Systems T J M Bench-Capon University of Liverpool 8.45 - 9.30 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Friday 22 April 1994 9.30 - 11.00 a.m. Applying Geometric Logic to Law Michael Heather & B Nick Rossiter University of Northumbria at Newcastle & University of Newcastle Can Legal Knowledge be Derived from Legal Texts? G Yannopoulos, John Sykes, V Konstantinou QMW, University of London & University of Westminster Dealing with Conceptual Diversity in Legal Information Systems R V de Mulder & C van Noortwijk Erasmus University 11.00 - 11.30 a.m. Coffee 11.30 - 1.00 p.m. A dialogue game for legal arguments R E Leenes, A R Lodder & J C Hage University of Twente & University of Limburg Three Meanings of Analogical Reasoning in Law Daniela Tiscornia Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Firenze Indexing the Theft Act 1968 for Case Based Reasoning and Artificial Neural Networks John Hobson and David Slee University of Hertfordshire 1.00 - 2.15 p.m. Lunch 2.15 - 3.45 p.m. Modelling Law Using a Feminist Theoretical Perspective Lilian Edwards University of Edinburgh Legislating Against Computer Misuse Andrew Charlesworth University of Hull 3.45 - 4.15 p.m. Tea & Close of Conference