Ninth International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON'08)

Luxembourg, 15–18 July, 2008

Call for Papers

The biennial DEON conferences are designed to promote interdisciplinary cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts and normative systems with computer science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, organisation theory and law. In addition to these general themes, DEON2008 will encourage a special focus on the topic Security and Trust.

There have been eight previous DEON conferences: Amsterdam, December 1991; Oslo, January 1994; Sesimbra, January 1996; Bologna, January 1998; Toulouse, January 2000; London, May 2002; Madeira, May 2004; Utrecht, July 2006. Selected papers from each of these conferences have been published internationally.

General themes

The Program Committee invites papers concerned with the following topics:

Specific Security and Trust themes

DEON2008 has a special focus on logical approaches to deontic notions in computer science in security and trust, encompassing applications in e-commerce as well as traditional areas of computer security. Topics of interest in this special theme include, but are not limited to:

We welcome both theoretical work (formal models, representations, specifications, logics, verification) and implementation-oriented work (architectures, programming languages, design models, simulations, prototype systems) on these specific topics.

Submission details

Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished, research paper pertaining to any of these topics. The paper should be in English, and should be no longer than 15 pages, or approximately 7500 words. The first page should contain the full name and contact information for at least one of the authors, and it should contain an abstract of no more than ten lines. Authors should submit their papers electronically, in either .pdf or .ps format.

Authors are especially encouraged to use the Springer LNCS styles if possible; these are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The deadline for submission is 18 January 2008 (extended from January 11).

Submission URL: http://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/deonpapers/submit/

(Revised) Timetable

Publication

Copies of the workshop proceedings, will be provided to all participants. The proceedings will be published with Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series. In addition, revised versions of selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (Elsevier).

Invited speakers

DEON'08