LOFT 2008

Call for Papers

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/ INVITED SPEAKERS Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America Tom Henzinger, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Christian List, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Hervé Moulin, Rice University, United States of America Nicole Schweikardt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Wolfgang Spohn, Universität Konstanz, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (General Chairs) Giacomo Bonanno, University of California at Davis, USA Benedikt Löwe, 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 Grädel, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany Joe Halpern, Cornell University, United States of America Wojtek Jamroga, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany Jérôme Lang, Université 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, Universität 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 19, 2008, and authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by April 15, 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. Important Dates: Deadline for submission: 19 March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2008 Conference: 3-5 July 2008