[agents] 2nd Call for Papers: LOFT 2008, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 3-5 July 2008

[LOFT 2008]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
8th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory
LOFT 2008
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 July 2008

http://www.illc.uva.nl/LOFT2008/

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: 1 March 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2008
Conference: 3-5 July 2008

INVITED SPEAKERS
Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America:
	TBA
Tom Henzinger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland:
	Games in System Design and Verification
Christian List, London School of Economics, United Kingdom: TBA
Herve Moulin, Rice University, United States of America: Cost sharing in
	the capacity synthesis problem
Nicole Schweikardt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt,
	Germany: TBA
Wolfgang Spohn, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany: Dependency Equilibria: A
	New (!) and Reasonable (?) Equilibrium Concept

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

(General Chairs)
Giacomo Bonanno, University of California at Davis, USA
Benedikt Loewe, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wiebe van der Hoek, The University of Liverpool, UK

(PC Members)
Krzysztof Apt, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands
Alexandru Baltag, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Johan van Benthem, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Adam Brandenburger, New York University, United States of America
Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ulle Endriss, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Erich Graedel, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
Joe Halpern, Cornell University, United States of America
Wojtek Jamroga, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
Jerome Lang, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Hannes Leitgeb, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Larry Moss, Indiana University, United States of America
Rohit Parikh, City University of New York, United States of America
Marc Pauly, Stanford University, United States of America
Andres Perea, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Robert van Rooij, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hans Rott, Universitaet Regensburg, Germany
Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Moshe Tennenholz, Technion, Israel
Rineke Verbrugge, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

This is the eighth in a series of conferences on the applications of
logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and
interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers which bring
together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and
decision theory, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence,
philosophy, cognitive psychology, mathematics and mind sciences.

The previous seven conferences took place at CIRM (Marseille, France) in
January 1994, at ICER (Torino, Italy) in December 1996, December 1998,
July 2000 and July 2002, in Leipzig in July 2004, and in Liverpool in July
2006.

Among the topics of particular relevance are:

(*) Modal logics for games and protocols: epistemic and deontic logic,
multi-agent logic, temporal logic, dynamic logic, probabilistic and
multivalued logic, logic of belief revision.

(*) Foundations of game and decision theory: epistemic foundations of
solution concepts, information processing and communication in games,
belief formation and revision in games.

(*) Learning and information-processing models: economic aspects of
information processing, learning in game-theoretic contexts, inductive
learning and inductive decision making.

(*) Bounded rationality approaches to game and decision theory.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

The three-day conference will give opportunity for paper presentations and
discussions. Potential contributors should submit an extended abstract of
approximately 5 - 10 pages in electronic format (pdf) to the LOFT 2008
EasyChair page at

  http://www.easychair.org/LOFT2008/

The deadline for submission is March 1, 2008, and authors will be notified of
acceptance decisions by April 1, 2008.

PUBLICATION OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Selected papers from the previous LOFT
conferences were published in a volume by Kluwer Academic Press, a volume
in the book series "Texts in Logic and Games" (Amsterdam University Press)
and in the following journals: Theory and Decision, Mathematical Social
Sciences, Games and Economic Behavior, Bulletin of Economic Research,
Research in Economics and Knowledge, Action and Rationality (KRA), a
special section of Synthese.