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Preference and deontics

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Agents do not just handle information, they also have preferences that determine what they want and decide to do. Preferences can change under the pressure of new information or other events that change agents' evaluation of the world. Techniques developed in dynamic-epistemic logics of belief and knowledge also apply to preference change, and have been applied to a variety of areas, from natural language to deontic reasoning about obligations and norms.

Basic papers

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Johan van Benthem, Fenrong Liu. Dynamic logic of preference upgrade. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 17(2):157-182, 2007. Prepublication version available.
Tomoyuki Yamada. Logical dynamics of some speech acts that affect obligations and preferences. Synthese, 165(2):295-315, 2008.
Guillaume Aucher, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van der Torre. Prescriptive and Descriptive Obligations in Dynamic Epistemic Deontic Logic. In AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, 150-161, Springer, 2009. Prepublication version available.
Johan van Benthem, Fenrong Liu. Deontic logic and preference change. IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications, 1(2):1–46, 2014. Prepublication version available.

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Jérôme Lang, Leendert W. N. van der Torre. From Belief Change to Preference Change. In ECAI 2008 - 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 351-355, IOS Press, 2008. Prepublication version available.
Johan van Benthem, Patrick Girard, Olivier Roy. Everything Else Being Equal: A Modal Logic for Ceteris Paribus Preferences. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 38(1):83-125, 2009. Prepublication version available.
Johan van Benthem, Davide Grossi, Fenrong Liu. Deontics = Betterness + Priority. In Deontic Logic in Computer Science, 10th International Conference, DEON 2010, 50-65, Springer, 2010.
Johan van Benthem, Davide Grossi, Fenrong Liu. Priority Structures in Deontic Logic. Theoria, 80(2):116-152, 2014.
Guillaume Aucher, Bastien Maubert, Sophie Pinchinat, François Schwarzentruber. Games with Communication: From Belief to Preference Change. In PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, 670-677, Springer, 2015. Prepublication version available.