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CfP special issue of JLC: "60 years of Deontic Logic", Deadline: 1 Sep 2011

1951 - 2011: 60 years of DEONTIC LOGIC

Special issue of Journal of Logic and Computation, corner on Deontic Logic and 
Normative Systems

Paper Submission Deadline: *September 1, 2011*

http://deonticlogic.org/

With his seminal paper ``deontic logic'' published in Mind in 1951, Von Wright 
launched the area of deontic logic. It is the field of logic that is concerned 
with obligation, permission, and related concepts.

We invite papers concerned with the logical study of normative reasoning, 
including formal systems of deontic logic, defeasible normative reasoning, the 
logic of action, and other related areas of logic, and the formal analysis of 
normative concepts and normative systems.

We also invite applications of deontic logic and normative systems to, for 
example, the formal specification of aspects of norm-governed multi-agent 
systems and autonomous agents, including the representation of rights, 
authorisation, delegation, power, responsibility and liability, the formal 
specification of normative systems for the management of bureaucratic processes 
in public or private administration, applications of normative logic to the 
specification of database integrity constraints, security and privacy, and 
normative aspects of protocols for communication, negotiation and multi-agent 
decision making.


Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished, research 
paper pertaining to any of the above mentioned topics. The paper should follow 
the specifications of the journal as detailed:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/logcom/for_authors/index.html

The paper must be submitted via the Easychair system, not sent directly to the 
journal:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deon60years

Each submitted paper will be carefully peer-reviewed based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition and relevance for 
the journal.


Corner editors, and editors of the special issue
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Guido Governatori, NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory

John Horty, University of Maryland

Ron van der Meyden, University of New South Wales

Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg