[NOTE: Updated on 17 January 2010 to revise submission dates.]
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 20 27 February 2010 and paper submission deadline of 6 March 2010 — has been issued for DEON 2010: The 10th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, to be held 7-9 July 2010 in Florence, Italy. The conference has a special focus on Deontic Logic and Legal Systems. Papers are invited on the following topics:
- “Legal rights
- Completeness and indeterminacy in legal systems
- Kinds of legal norms
- Modelling norms and values
- Legal power and competences
- The dynamic of legal systems
- Compliance and enforcement of obligations
- Contracts and other constitutive acts
- 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.”
For more information, please see the call for papers.
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