From: jim@cs.sfu.ca   
      
   Call for Papers   
      
   Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic:   
     Formal Models of Belief Change in Rational Agents   
      
   Guest Editors:   
     Giacomo Bonanno (gfbonanno at: ucdavis.edu)   
     James Delgrande (jim at: cs.sfu.ca)   
     Jerome Lang (lang at: irit.fr)   
     Hans Rott (hans.rott at: psk.uni-regensburg.de)   
      
   The Journal of Applied Logic invites submissions of papers on the topic   
   of Formal Models of Belief Change in Rational Agents. This special issue is   
   based on the Dagstuhl seminar of the same name, held in August 2007.  The   
   intent is to publish journal-length versions of select papers from the   
   Dagstuhl seminar.  As well, in order to have the widest selection of papers   
   possible, we also welcome submissions on the topic of the workshop from   
   researchers who were unable to attend.  As usual, all submissions will be   
   peer reviewed; your paper should not be under review or appearing in another   
   journal, and it should expand upon any conference publication.   
      
   The theory of belief revision studies how a rational agent should change its   
   beliefs when receiving or perceiving new information about the environment.   
   This new information could include objective properties of the actual world,   
   occurrences of events, and, in the case of multiple agents, public or private   
   communications among agents (possibly concerning their beliefs and   
   preferences) as well as actions taken by other agents. Not surprisingly, this   
   area has been of interest to researchers in different communities, including   
   philosophy, computer science (especially in the artificial intelligence   
   and the database communities), and economics.   
      
   We solicit papers dealing with the traditional areas of belief change, such   
   as is given in axiomatic and semantic approaches to belief revision, iterated   
   belief change, belief set merging, belief change in dynamic domains, etc.  As   
   well, we are interested in papers that cross disciplines, particularly those   
   that incorporate notions from game theory and social choice theory, or those   
   that extend the traditional account to epistemic notions having to do with   
   communicating, negotiating, competing, and collaborating agents.   
      
   Timetable:   
   o       1 June, 2008. Submissions to be received by one of the guest editors   
   o       1 October, 2008. Notification   
   o       1 December, 2008. Final version due.   
      
   Submissions should be sent electronically, as pdf files, to one of the   
   guest editors.   
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   James Delgrande   
   Professor                                   jim at: cs.sfu.ca   
   School of Computing Science                 http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~jim   
      
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