Programme

JURIX '95

Eighth International Conference
on
Legal Knowledge-Based Systems

Thursday, November 30 and Friday, December 1, 1995
University of Limburg
Bouillonstraat 3
Maastricht
The Netherlands

Hosted by the Department of Metajuridica and MATRIKS

Thursday, November 30

10:30 Registration and coffee

11:00 Welcome by Professor H.J. van den Herik

11:10 Tutorial                          Paper session

      Professor J.M. Smits              Groendijk and Tragter, Statistical 
      Professor J.M.A. Berkvens            and neural approaches to 
      Dr. L.A. Plugge                      smart-money determination
      Tutorial: Internet (part 1)       Peek, Structure-preserving 
      (Room 1.306)                         representations of complex 
                                           references

12:30 Lunch (Feestzaal) 

13:40 Tutorial                          Paper session

      Professor J.M. Smits              Royakkers and Dignum, The idea 
      Professor J.M.A. Berkvens            of obligation; or: How to 
      Dr. L.A. Plugge                      interpret O(p)?
      Tutorial: Internet (part 2)       Tragter and Oskamp, Regulative 
      (Room 1.306)                         effects of legal decision support 
                                           systems

15:10 Tea break

15:30 Invited speaker

      Dr. T.J.M. Bench-Capon
      (University of Liverpool)
      Argument in Artificial Intelligence and Law

16:15 Tea break

16:30 Tutorial                          Paper session

      Professor J.M. Smits              Centinia, Routen, Hartmann and 
      Professor J.M.A. Berkvens            Hegarty, STATUTOR: Too 
      Dr. L.A. Plugge                      intelligent by half?
      Tutorial: Internet (part 3)       Muntjewerff and Winkels, ROSA; A 
      (Room 1.306)                         model based computer system 
                                           for teaching legal case solving

18:00 Buses to Fort St. Pieter

18:30 Dinner (Fort St. Pieter)

Friday, December 1

9:30 Welcome by Professor M.J. Cohen

9:40 Invited speaker

     J.L. Janssen van Raay LLM 
     (Member of the European Parliament)
     A telematics union

10:25 Heesen, Homburg and Offereins, LACA: An architecture 
         for legal agents

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Invited speaker

      Dr. C.A. de Feyter 
      (FT&S Consultancy, Heemstede)
      The PALMA project on European co-operation: 
      How IT-applications lead to communication

12:15 Mitrakas, Towards the development of selection 
         criteria for the regulation of EDI

12:50 Lunch (Feestzaal)

14:15 Gru"tters, A simulation model for the Dutch asylum 
         procedure: a different approach to law and AI
      Akroyd and Edwards, Computer supported contract 
         negotiation: CONTRACT NEGOTIATOR 
         - an experimental prototype 
      Leenes and Svensson, Large-scale computer networks 
         and the future of legal knowledge-based systems

16:00 Closing of the conference

The Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (JURIX) is a forum for research in Law and Artificial Intelligence. Since 1988, JURIX has organised annual international conferences on current research in the field.

The eighth JURIX conference is hosted by the Department of Metajuridica and the MAastricht Technological Research Institute for Knowledge and Systems (MATRIKS), both of the University of Limburg in Maastricht.

The theme for JURIX '95 is the relation between legal knowledge-based systems and telecommunication. The proceedings of the conference have been published by Koninklijke Vermande BV.

Programme Committee

Dr. J.C. Hage (chair)
Dr. T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Prof. mr. M.J. Cohen
Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik

Organising Committee

G.P.J. Span (chair)
A.E.M. van den Bosch
A.R. Lodder
H.B. Verheij
supported by S. Dufour

WWW pages

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Bart Verheij, bart.verheij@metajur.rulimburg.nl
Last modified: November 28, 1995