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CfP: Special Issue of JoLLI on Hybrid Logic; Deadline: 1 March 2008

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JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
(http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy/logic?SGWID=4-40392-70-3550318
9-0) Special Issue on HYBRID LOGIC

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: March 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008
Publication: by the end of 2008

GENERAL INFORMATION
Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly
refer  to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model
are meant  to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have
been  sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that
work on them  really got into its stride.

It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because
of the  usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when
reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions
about what happens at a  particular instant, and standard modal formalisms
do not allow this. What is less  obvious is that the route hybrid logic
takes to overcome this problem often  actually improves the behaviour of the
underlying modal formalism. For example,
it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural
deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be
proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic.

This special issue has its origin in the International Workshop on Hybrid
Logic (HyLo 2007), which was held 6-10 August in Dublin, Ireland as part of
the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI
2007).  The HyLo 2007 workshop continued a series of previous workshops on
hybrid logic.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like
nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but generally
extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power.

SUBMISSIONS
This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have
been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed
conferences. All submissions will be refereed to usual journal standards.

Submissions should not exceed 30 pages and preferably be formatted according
to the guidelines for Journal of Logic, Language and Information  (see
"Instructions for Authors" at the web-page of the journal).   Submissions
should be sent to Torben Braner (as PDF file): torben@ruc.dk.  Please put
"JoLLI submission" in the subject field and include the following
information in the body of the email: paper title, author names, email
address of the contact author, and a short abstract.

GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE
Torben Braner, Roskilde University, Denmark (editor-in-chief)
Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark
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