Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

CFP: Augustus DeMorgan Workshop 2006
“Belief revision, belief merging and social choice”
Belief revision, belief merging and social choice theory share a number of principles. Belief revision investigates the dynamics of the process of belief change: when an agent is faced with new information which contradicts his/her current beliefs, he/she will have to retract some of the old beliefs in order to accommodate the new information consistently. Recently, the
problem of belief revision has been generalised to consider the aggregation of potentially conflicting individual belief bases into a collective one. This new area is called belief merging. On the other hand, social choice deals with the aggregation of individual preferences to decide on a collectively preferred outcome. Although there are clear connections between these areas, the investigation of the relations between them is quite new.The aim of this workshop is to promote interaction between researchers of these three disciplines and generate cross-fertilisation of ideas. As such, we have invited leading researchers in belief revision, belief merging and social choice theory to present their work, and we also invite submissions
of original papers and extended abstracts in related areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* belief revision
* belief merging
* social choice theory
* decision making
* preference handling
* aggregation of preferences and judgments
* negotiations in multi-agent systems
* theories of order
* fuzzy preferences
* voting

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: September, 22nd
* Notification of acceptance: October, 2nd
* Registration: October, 9th
* Workshop: November, 8th-10th
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