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Dear Colleagues,</div>
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We invite submissions for the Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA) special track at the 39th International FLAIRS Conference, to be held
<b>17-20 May 2026 </b>in Marco Island, Florida. </div>
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The goal of the NORA special track is to advance research on how norms can shape, guide, and explain agentic behavior in AI systems. It aims to bring together scholars exploring formal models of norms and deontic reasoning with those developing applied approaches
to norm-aware, agent-based, collaborative, and responsible AI. By fostering dialogue between logic-based, data-driven, and human-centered perspectives, the track seeks to bridge theoretical foundations and practical implementations of normative reasoning across
diverse domains such as multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, robotics, security, law, and AI ethics.</div>
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The track welcomes both established scholars and early-career researchers from diverse AI domains who wish to explore how normative approaches can enrich and support contemporary AI research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</div>
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Formal and computational models of normative reasoning </li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Norm-aware and norm-adaptive agents (including agents for coordination, negotiation, and institution design)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Normative alignment and behavioral conformity in agentic and adaptive AI systems</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Normative reasoning in multi-agent interaction, collaboration, and collective decision-making</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Dialogue and interaction protocols for proposing, contesting, and revising norms</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Learning, planning, and control under normative constraints (reinforcement learning, safe exploration, and compliance by design)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Automated normative reasoning for verification, monitoring, and compliance checking</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Normative reasoning in robotics, embodied and hybrid agents, and practical decision making</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Causal reasoning and norms (responsibility, accountability, blame/credit assignment, and trust)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Normative explainability and interpretability (e.g., argumentation- or deontic-based explanations)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Translation of natural-language norms into formal or executable specifications</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;">
Applications of normative reasoning in law, security, machine ethics, and AI governance</li></ul>
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For full details on the track and how to submit see the track website: <a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" title="https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-nora/" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" id="OWA7cfdc4c8-8871-4d6f-d200-67073d8581c1" target="_blank" href="https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-nora/">
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<b>Important Dates</b></div>
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Abstract submission deadline: January 19, 2026 (Abstract is required to submit full paper.)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2026</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
Paper acceptance notifications: March 9, 2026</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8pt 36pt;">
Camera ready version due: April 6, 2026</li></ul>
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<b>Types of submissions</b></div>
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The track is accepting three types of paper submissions:</div>
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Full papers (up to 6 pages excluding references)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;">
Short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8pt;">
Posters (up to 2 pages excluding references)</li></ul>
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<b>Proceedings</b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The proceedings of FLAIRS-39 will be published by Florida Online Journals (</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://journals.flvc.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA41ed4f31-8920-40a5-68a9-45c8d482dbe6" target="_blank" href="https://journals.flvc.org/">https://journals.flvc.org/</a></u></span><span style="color: black;">)
which is indexed in DBLP and Scopus.</span></div>
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<b>Paper submission </b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Papers must use the<u><a style="color: black; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA881167fc-f24e-5a5f-72f1-c26090c6f9b7" target="_blank" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view"> </a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4649e853-ede2-6f73-05a9-957d9106c157" target="_blank" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view">FLAIRS-39
template</a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><u> </u>and must be submitted as a PDF.</span></div>
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We look forward to your contributions!</div>
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The NORA Track Chairs</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">R¨¦ka Markovich, University of Luxembourg,
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, leon.vandertorre@uni.lu</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg, davide.liga@uni.lu</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Luca Pasetto, University of Luxembourg, luca.pasetto@uni.lu</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, liuwen.yu@list.lu</span></p>
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