Law plays a crucial role in almost every aspect of our life, both public and private. Thousands of legal documents are constantly produced by institutional bodies, such as Parliaments and Courts, which constitute a prominent source of information and knowledge for judges, lawyers, and other professionals involved in legal decision-making. To cope with growing volume, complexity, and articulation of legal documents as well as to foster digital justice and digital law, increasing effort is being devoted to digital transformation processes in the legal domain.
Conceptual modeling plays a crucial role in this scenario, to formalize features and nature of terminology used in legal documents and to promote the development and the adoption of legal ontologies, shared vocabularies, and open linked data about legislation, case-law, and other relevant legal information. Furthermore, advanced functionalities for legal data and process modeling and management are advocated, embracing modern technologies like Semantic Web, NLP, AI, to enable semantic text search and exploration, legal knowledge extraction and formalization, legal decision-making and legal analytics.
This workshop aims to constitute a meeting venue for a variety of researchers involved in digital justice and digital law, originating a rich community crossing different disciplines besides computer science, like law, legal informatics, management, economics and social sciences. The workshop will provide an opportunity to share, discuss, and identify new approaches and solutions for modeling, analysis, formalization, and interpretation of legal data and related processes.
In this edition of JUSMOD, we are going to discuss the topics of computing and law, considering the conference theme in this year, Conceptual Modeling, AI and Beyond. Also, new topics have been added to this edition. In addition to those we have debated in recent editions, we have also included topics related to conceptual modeling in fields such as climate change and transformation, environmental justice, and governance of urban systems, among others. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Digital transformation, digital justice, digital law
Process, data, knowledge modeling for digital justice
Argumentation-based modeling
Modeling and law version control: normative systems, judicial decisions, contracts
Linked data and knowledge graphs in the legal domain
Thesauri, shared vocabularies, and taxonomies in the legal domain
Quality of legal data modeling
Visual law, legal design, and correlated themes
Legal text analysis and interpretation
Multilingual legal information management
Harmonization of law
Legal document annotation
Legal knowledge extraction
Semantic search and retrieval of legal data
Ethics in legal data processing
Legal analytics
Dispute Resolution models
Urban Law and Policy - conceptual modeling, taxonomies, digitalization, machine learning
Environmental justice modeling
Digital justice in urban and transport planning
Important Dates
Abstract submission: July 13, 2024
Paper submission: July 27, 2024Extended to July 31, 2024 (firm deadline)
Author notification: August 23, 2024
Camera-ready: August 30, 2024 (firm deadline)
Workshop: October 28, 2024
Submission Guidelines
The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Authors must submit their manuscripts using the Springer style or Overleaf. Papers will be judged on their contribution, literature base, novelty, clarity, relevance, and rigor. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized.
The paper submission formats are:
Regular paper (max 16 pages, excluding references): research papers describing a completed study, including negative results and early exploratory efforts.
Short paper (max 8 pages, excluding references): position, vision, and lesson-learned papers about planned/in-progress study, including presentations of preliminary results.
Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, and at least one author must register for the workshop.
Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one author is required to register to the conference.
The proceedings of JUSMOD will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS.
The organization of a journal special issue about the workshop topics is currently under consideration. The authors of workshop accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended contribution to the special issue (if confirmed).
Chairs and Organization
Matteo Buffa, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jean-Rémi Bourguet, University of Vila Velha, Brazil
Daniel Braun, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Juliana Justo Castello, Vitória Law School, Brazil
Samuela Marchiori, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Maria das Graças Teixeira, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Davide Riva, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Camera-ready Instructions
Please, follow these instructions for preparation of the camera-ready versions of accepted papers:
Source files. You should conform to the page limits of the workshop (see above), and to Springer's instructions also available on Overleaf.
Copyright Transfer Form. The form is available here. It should be filled and signed. One author must sign the form on behalf of all authors of your paper.
The volume title: Advances in Conceptual Modeling - ER 2024 Workshops.
The volume editors: Leah Wong, Motoshi Saeki, et al..
Upload. All files (source + pdf + copyright form) must be zipped and uploaded using the EasyChair author account. The authors can update the initial submission with this zipped file.
Registration to the ER 2024 conference. At least one author per paper needs to pay the full registration fee (not the one-day-only workshop registration). Please, follow the instructions at the ER 2024 website.
Deadline. The deadline for camera ready, filled and signed copyright form, as well as author registration to ER conference must be completed by August 30, 2024.