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CfP special issue of JLC on "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Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished, research 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