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

[Leon Van Der Torre]

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Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished, 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