=============================================== PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS CLAT 2007 Computer-aided Law and Advanced Technologies track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2007 http://www.clat.unibo.it http://www.mfn.unipmn.it/~lavinia/clat2007 Seoul, Korea, March 11-15, 2007 =============================================== 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/). 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: 1) 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 2) 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, Italy Computer Science Department lavinia.egidi@mfn.unipmn.it Giovanni Sartor European University Institute of Florence, Italy Department of Law Giovanni.Sartor@IUE.it Alessandra Villecco University of Bologna, Italy Department of Law - CICU alessandra.villecco@unibo.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Francesco Bergadano, University of Turin, Italy Davide Cavagnino, University of Turin, Italy 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 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 and 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. ============================ IMPORTANT DATES Sept. 8, 2006: Paper submissions Oct. 16, 2006: Author notification Oct 30, 2006: Camera-Ready Copy ============================ CONTACTS Alessandra Villecco University of Bologna - Department of Law - CICU Italy alessandra.villecco@unibo.it Phone: +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 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