15-18 July 2008
Ninth International Conference on
Deontic Logic in Computer Science
(DEON'08)
Luxembourg, 15-18 July, 2008
Call for Papers
The biennial DEON conferences are designed to promote interdisciplinary
cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical
study of normative concepts and normative systems with computer science,
artificial intelligence, philosophy, organisation theory and law. In
addition to these general themes, DEON2008 will encourage a special
focus on the topic *Security and Trust*.
There have been eight previous DEON conferences: Amsterdam, December
1991; Oslo, January 1994; Sesimbra, January 1996; Bologna, January 1998;
Toulouse, January 2000; London, May 2002; Madeira, May 2004; Utrecht,
July 2006. Selected papers from each of these conferences have been
published internationally <http://deon2008.uni.lu/publications.html>.
General themes
The Program Committee invites papers concerned with the following topics:
* 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
* the formal analysis of normative concepts and normative systems
* the formal representation of legal knowledge
* the formal specification of aspects of norm-governed multi-agent
systems and autonomous agents, including (but not limited to) 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
* normative aspects of protocols for communication, negotiation and
multi-agent decision making
Specific Security and Trust themes
DEON2008 has a special focus on logical approaches to deontic notions in
computer science in security and trust, encompassing applications in
e-commerce as well as traditional areas of computer security. Topics of
interest in this special theme include, but are not limited to:
* digital rights management
* electronic contracts, including:
o service level agreements
o digital media licenses
* authorization
* access control
* security policies
* privacy policies
* business processes
* regulatory compliance
We welcome both theoretical work (formal models, representations,
specifications, logics, verification) and implementation-oriented work
(architectures, programming languages, design models, simulations,
prototype systems) on these specific topics.
Submission details
Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished,
research paper pertaining to any of these topics. The paper should be in
English, and should be no longer than 15 pages, or approximately 7500
words. The first page should contain the full name and contact
information for at least one of the authors, and it should contain an
abstract of no more than ten lines. Authors should submit their papers
electronically, in either .pdf or .ps format.
Authors should consult the instructions on the website
<http://deon2008.uni.lu/submission.html> for submitting their papers
electronically. (Anyone who is unable to send the paper electronically
and wishes to submit hard copies should inquire for details from one of
the program co-chairs at the addresses given below.) Authors are
especially encouraged to use the Springer LNCS styles if possible; these
are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The
deadline for submission is 11 January 2008.
Timetable
* 11 January 2008: submission deadline
* 22 February 2008: notification of acceptance
* 21 March 2008: deadline for final, camera-ready versions
* 15 July 2008: NORMAS 2008 workshop
* 16-18 July 2008: DEON'08 conference
Publication
Copies of the workshop proceedings, will be provided to all
participants. The proceedings will be published with Springer in their
LNCS/LNAI series. In addition, revised versions of selected papers from
the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Journal of
Applied Logic (Elsevier).
Invited speakers
To be announced.
General and program co-chairs:
Ron van der Meyden
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
meyden@cse.unsw.edu.au
tel.: +61 2 8306 0460
fax: +61 2 8306 0405
Leon van der Torre
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg
6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
L-1953, Luxembourg
leon.vandertorre@uni.lu
tel.: +352-4666445261
fax: +352-4666445500
Organizing committee co-chairs
Martin Caminada
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg
martin.caminada@uni.lu
tel.: +352-4666445485
fax: +352-4666445500
Gabriella Pigozzi
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg
gabriella.pigozzi@uni.lu
tel.: +352-4666445442
fax: +352-4666445500
Program committee
Paul Bartha (University of British Columbia)
David Basin (ETH Zürich)
Guido Boella (University of Torino)
Jan Broersen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Mark Brown (Syracuse University)
José Carmo (University of Madeira)
Frédéric Cuppens (ENST-Bretagne Rennes)
Robert Demolombe (IRIT Toulouse)
Frank Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht)
Lou Goble (Willamette University)
Carl A. Gunter (University of Illinois)
Joerg Hansen (University of Leipzig / Bachhaus)
Risto Hilpinen (University of Miami)
John Horty (University of Maryland)
Andrew Jones (King's College London)
Ninghui Li (Purdue University)
Lars Lindahl (University of Lund)
Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London)
Heiko Ludwig (Watson Research Center, IBM)
Paul McNamara (University of New Hampshire)
John-Jules Meyer (Universiteit Utrecht)
Ron van der Meyden (University of New South Wales)
John Mitchell (Stanford University)
Rohit Parikh (City University of New York)
Adrian Paschke (Technical University Dresden)
Henry Prakken (Universiteit Utrecht / University of Groningen)
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science,Stockholm)
Filipe Santos (ISCTE Portugal)
Giovanni Sartor (University of Bologna)
Marek Sergot (Imperial College London)
Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC)
Yao-Hua Tan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, co-chair)
Vicky Weissman (Cornell University)
For further information, see the DEON'08 website: <http://deon2008.uni.lu>