CFP: Belief change in rational agents (J Applied Logic)

[Jim Delgrande]

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic:
  Formal Models of Belief Change in Rational Agents

Guest Editors:
  Giacomo Bonanno (gfbonanno at: ucdavis.edu)
  James Delgrande (jim at: cs.sfu.ca)
  Jerome Lang (lang at: irit.fr)
  Hans Rott (hans.rott at: psk.uni-regensburg.de)

The Journal of Applied Logic invites submissions of papers on the topic
of Formal Models of Belief Change in Rational Agents. This special issue is
based on the Dagstuhl seminar of the same name, held in August 2007.  The
intent is to publish journal-length versions of select papers from the
Dagstuhl seminar.  As well, in order to have the widest selection of papers
possible, we also welcome submissions on the topic of the workshop from
researchers who were unable to attend.  As usual, all submissions will be
peer reviewed; your paper should not be under review or appearing in another
journal, and it should expand upon any conference publication.

The theory of belief revision studies how a rational agent should change its
beliefs when receiving or perceiving new information about the environment.
This new information could include objective properties of the actual world,
occurrences of events, and, in the case of multiple agents, public or private
communications among agents (possibly concerning their beliefs and
preferences) as well as actions taken by other agents. Not surprisingly, this
area has been of interest to researchers in different communities, including
philosophy, computer science (especially in the artificial intelligence
and the database communities), and economics.

We solicit papers dealing with the traditional areas of belief change, such
as is given in axiomatic and semantic approaches to belief revision, iterated
belief change, belief set merging, belief change in dynamic domains, etc.  As
well, we are interested in papers that cross disciplines, particularly those
that incorporate notions from game theory and social choice theory, or those
that extend the traditional account to epistemic notions having to do with
communicating, negotiating, competing, and collaborating agents.

Timetable:
o       1 June, 2008. Submissions to be received by one of the guest editors
o       1 October, 2008. Notification
o       1 December, 2008. Final version due.

Submissions should be sent electronically, as pdf files, to one of the
guest editors.