Dear Colleagues, We invite submissions for the Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA) special track at the 39th International FLAIRS Conference, to be held 17-20 May 2026 in Marco Island, Florida. 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. 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):

* Formal and computational models of normative reasoning * Norm-aware and norm-adaptive agents (including agents for coordination, negotiation, and institution design) * Normative alignment and behavioral conformity in agentic and adaptive AI systems * Normative reasoning in multi-agent interaction, collaboration, and collective decision-making * Dialogue and interaction protocols for proposing, contesting, and revising norms * Learning, planning, and control under normative constraints (reinforcement learning, safe exploration, and compliance by design) * Automated normative reasoning for verification, monitoring, and compliance checking * Normative reasoning in robotics, embodied and hybrid agents, and practical decision making * Causal reasoning and norms (responsibility, accountability, blame/credit assignment, and trust) * Normative explainability and interpretability (e.g., argumentation- or deontic-based explanations) * Translation of natural-language norms into formal or executable specifications * Applications of normative reasoning in law, security, machine ethics, and AI governance

For full details on the track and how to submit see the track website: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-nora/

Important Dates

* Abstract submission deadline: January 19, 2026 (Abstract is required to submit full paper.) * Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2026 * Paper acceptance notifications: March 9, 2026 * Camera ready version due: April 6, 2026

Types of submissions The track is accepting three types of paper submissions:

* Full papers (up to 6 pages excluding references) * Short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references) * Posters (up to 2 pages excluding references)

Proceedings The proceedings of FLAIRS-39 will be published by Florida Online Journals (https://journals.flvc.org/) which is indexed in DBLP and Scopus.

Paper submission Papers must use the https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view FLAIRS-39 templatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view and must be submitted as a PDF.

We look forward to your contributions!

The NORA Track Chairs

Réka Markovich, University of Luxembourg, reka.markovich@uni.lumailto:reka.markovich@uni.lu

Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, leon.vandertorre@uni.lu

Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg, davide.liga@uni.lu

Luca Pasetto, University of Luxembourg, luca.pasetto@uni.lu

Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, liuwen.yu@list.lu