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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">3rd Call for papers: 16th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON 2023)</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">Abstract submission deadline: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px; text-decoration: underline;"><span dir="ltr">March 1st 2023</span></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">Paper submission deadline: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px; text-decoration: underline;"><span dir="ltr">March 31st 2023</span></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">For details, visit <a href="http://www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17.17px;">www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023</span></a></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">The 16th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">(DEON 2023) will be held at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">(Trois-Rivières, Canada) </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px; text-decoration: underline;"><span dir="ltr">on July 5-6-7</span></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;"> 2023
(see <a href="http://www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17.17px;">www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023</span></a>).</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">DEON 2023 will focus on the theme</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">Theoretical and technical limitations of automated behavior.</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">We further invite submissions pertaining to the following topics (the list</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">is non-exclusive):</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the logical study of normative reasoning, including formal systems of deontic logic, defeasible normative reasoning, logics of action, logics of time, and other related areas
of logic</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the formal analysis of normative concepts, normative systems (and their dynamics)</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the formal specification of aspects of norm-governed multi-agent systems and autonomous agents, including (but not limited to) the representation of rights, authorization, delegation,
power, responsibility and liability</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the normative aspects of protocols for communication, negotiation and multi-agent decision making</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the formal analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of deontic and normative expressions in natural language, including modals, imperatives, deontic verbs and adjectives, and
discourse particles</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• advances in formal models of context and discourse structure that aim to explain the use of deontic expressions in natural language, and their significance for communication,
action and social structures</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the formal representation of legal knowledge</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the formal specification of normative systems for the management of bureaucratic processes in public or private administration</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• applications of normative logic to the specification of database integrity constraints</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• game theoretic aspects of deontic reasoning</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• emergence of norms, including its logical and computational representation</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• deontic paradoxes and their philosophical and linguistic import</span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.17px;">• the connection between argumentation theory and normative reasoning, including the role of reasons and justifications</span></p>
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