Regulatory systems (RSs) span across a broad range of industries, activities and behaviors governing how businesses should be operated. It is increasingly large and can encompass or connect with other systems ranging from traditional software systems to social networks, clouds, cyber-physical and safety-critical systems. Apart from the intrinsic complexity of integrated systems, the variability and dynamicity of surrounding environments also make it extremely challenging to ensure the correctness of such systems.
Given many decades of research and development in RSs, various approaches and techniques have been developed and removed some of the barriers. However, less attention has been drawn to the analysis of system at runtime. Besides, the current practices also emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate processes — through the addition of more contexts and analytics — in a more advanced and intelligent ways.
The IRS workshop aims at raising the awareness of approaches that can be used in providing intelligent support to regulatory systems, including both functional and non-functional properties, before and after executions. It is intended to be a venue to researchers and practitioners who are interested in methods and techniques for runtime verification and compliance checking, quantitative analysis (e.g. prediction and optimization of temporal performance) and their applications in experimental and industrial settings.
While JURIX conference solicits conceptual and applied research, industrial case studies advancing the legal information and knowledge systems covering a range of foundations, methods, approaches, models, systems, and applications as well as legal and ethical issues pertaining the design, development and application of such systems. The topics covered by the IRS workshop will supplement the wider coverage of the topics relevant to the smart and intelligent systems that are subject to regulatory and legislative provisions, frameworks and standards.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a dedicated forum for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and domains that are relevant for the workshop theme. We are looking forward to stimulating discussions from both theoretical and practical dimensions on investigating and addressing the problems of intelligence regulatory systems, from models generation to runtime analysis and to consistencies verification.
Below is the list of topics of interests, but not limited to:
Blockchain technologies and applications
Smart contracts verifications
Verification techniques for compliance checking of business process at runtime
Regulatory compliance in IoT and cyber-physical systems
Issues and challenges in cyber-physical systems
Semantic compliance in software systems
Data and privacy compliance in cloud
Regulatory intelligence systems
Services and tools for compliance management in specific domains (such as financial, security, etc.)
Health informatics
Intelligent applications of financial systems
Analysis of legal informatics systems
Mathematical foundations, languages and specifications for legal knowledge representation
Methods and techniques for automated workflows generation using natural language processing (NLP)
Submission Deadline: 22.11.2021
Notification: 30.11.2021
Camera-ready Version: 5. 12.2021
Workshop: 08.12.2021
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Two types of paper submissions are solicited: (a) scientific research papers, and (b) industry experience reports or case studies.
Scientific research papers should describe original results not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be evaluated based on their scientific and technical contributions, originality, and relevance.
Industry experience reports or case studies should provide new insights gained in case studies or when applying enterprise computing technologies in practice, and should provide further important feedback about the state of practice and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance, and clarity.
Only papers in English will be accepted. Manuscripts should be no longer than 10 pages including references, figures and tables. All submissions must be made in PDF format and comply with the style and guidelines in the IOS Press Instructions IOS Press Instructions for authors for authors. They should be made via the electronic submission system hosted on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irs20211 . Each accepted paper must have one of its authors registered to the conference before the camera-ready deadline. The conference organizers reserve the right of removing a paper from the proceedings if no author is officially registered by the camera-ready deadline. Moreover, only papers that have been registered and presented by their authors during the conference will be published in IOS press in their series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) proceedings
Mustafa Hashmi, La Trobe University, Australia
Ho-Pun Lam, Australia
Pompue Casanovs, La Trobe University, Australia
Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia
Mustafa Hashmi, Federation University, Australia
Christian Klopp, University of Queensland, Australia
Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Ho-Pun Lam, Australia
Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock, Germany
Victor Rodriguez-Doncel, Universidad PolitÅLecnica de Madrid, Spain
Thilo Stadelmann, ZHAW, Switzerland
To be announced
The IRS 2019 workshop will be co-located with International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX) will be hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania. It will take place on 8-10 December 2021. Mykolas Romeris University (MRU).
Lithuania, and its capital Vilnius has vibrant community of technologies and is home to a rapidly developing and innovative business ecosystem. The city is constantly developing strategies to support the continued growth of Shared Service Centers, FinTech, ICT, high-tech manufacturing, and biotechnology. It is recognized as one of the Fintech hubs in the world, 4th globally in the National Cyber Security Index, 11th globally for Ease of Doing Business.
The workshop will be organised on 08.12. 2021 at Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva [find location below]
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